In an article on Bunyan lately published in the "Contemporary Review" - the only article on the subject worth reading on the subject I ever saw (yes, thank you, I am familiar with Macaulay's patronizing prattle about "The Pilgrim's Progress") etc.

Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation.

German and Spanish are accessible to foreigners: English is not accessible even to Englishmen.

I was always unlawful; I broke the law when I was born because my parents weren't married.

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

There is only one belief that can rob death of its sting and the grave of its victory. For without that you cannot be born again.

There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.