[A pacifist is] the last and least excusable on the list of the enemies of society.

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

The highest and noblest thing that history can be is a good story.

The best kind of giving is thanksgiving.

[Marxism will] in a generation or so [go] into the limbo of most heresies, but meanwhile it will have poisoned the Russian Revolution.

Latter-day scepticism is fond of calling itself progressive; but scepticism is really reactionary. Scepticism goes back; it attempts to unsettle what has already been settled. Instead of trying to break up new fields with its plough, it simply tries to break up the plough.

If a man does not talk to himself, it is because he is not worth talking to.