There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.

Your wits can't thicken in that soft moist air, on those white springy roads, in those misty rushes and brown bogs, on those hillsides of granite rocks and magenta heather. You've no such colours in the sky, no such lure in the distances, no such sadness in the evenings. Oh the dreaming! the dreaming! the torturing, heart-scalding, never satisfying dreaming, dreaming, dreaming, dreaming!

The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty . . . . Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys basic people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.

The conversion of a savage to Christianity is the conversion of Christianity to savagery.

If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.

Imprisonment is as irrevocable as death.

My only policy is to profess evil and do good.