Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

I try to follow his example, not to imitate him.

I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England with the thunder of his spirit

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

In my dreams is a country where the State is the Church and the Church the people: three in one and one in three. It is a commonwealth in which work is play and play is life: three in one and one in three. It is a temple in which the priest is the worshiper and the worshiper the worshipped: three in one and one in three. It is a godhead in which all life is human and all humanity divine: three in one and one in three.

There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.