If I bind the future I bind my will. If I bind my will I strangle creation.

When a bishop at the first shot abandons the worship of Christ and rallies his flock round the altar of Mars, he may be acting patriotically... but that does not justify him in pretending...that Christ is, in effect, Mars.

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

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

He who has nothing to assert has no style and can have none: he who has something to assert will go as far in power of style as its momentousness and his conviction will carry him

Social progress takes effect through the replacement of all institutions by new ones; and since every institution involves the recognition of the duty of conforming to it, progress must involve the repudiation of an established duty at every step.