The true Christian is in all countries a pilgrim and a stranger.

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.

Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.

Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.

The only kind of reform usually possible is reform from within; a more intimate study and more intelligent use of the traditional forms.

Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.

There is no tyranny so hateful as a vulgar and anonymous tyranny. It is all-permeating, all-thwarting; it blasts every budding novelty and sprig of genius with its omnipresent and fierce stupidity. Such a headless people has the mind of a worm and the claws of a dragon.