The capacity of any conqueror is more likely than not to be an illusion produced by the incapacity of his adversary.

Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

If you say that God is good, great, blessed, wise or any such thing, the starting point is this : God is.

He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

Nothing can save us from a perpetual headlong fall into a bottomless abyss but a solid footing of dogma; and we no sooner agree to that than we find that the only trustworthy dogma is that there is no dogma.

My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative revolution. I desire that no public monument or work of art or inscription or sermon or ritual service commemorating me shall suggest that I accepted the tenets peculiar to any established church or denomination nor take the form of a cross or any other instrument of torture or symbol of blood sacrifice.