Bible worship, though at its best it may achieve sublimity by keeping its head in the skies, may also make itself both ridiculousand dangerous by having its feet off the ground.

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

There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle. He fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles; he bullies you on manly principles; he supports his king on loyal principles and cuts off his king's head on republican principles.

The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false.

You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.

If the wicked flourish and the fittest survive, Nature must be the god of rascals.

Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.