We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.

Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.

I am a sort of collector of religions: and the curious thing is that I find I can believe in them all.

If you leave your art, the world will beat you back to it. The world has not an ambition worth sharing, or a prize worth handling.

The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols.

Reasonable men adapt themselves to their environment; unreasonable men try to adapt their environment to themselves. Thus all progress is the result of the efforts of unreasonable men.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.