As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly.

Adventure is the champagne of life.

In anything that does cover the whole of your life - in your philosophy and your religion - you must have mirth. If you do not have mirth you will certainly have madness.

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.

Be careful how you suggest things to me. For there is in me a madness which goes beyond martyrdom, the madness of an utterly idle man.

Even a bad shot is dignified when he accepts a duel.

When people talk as if the Crusades were nothing more than an aggressive raid against Islam, they seem to forget in the strangest way that Islam itself was only an aggressive raid against the old and ordered civilization in these parts. I do not say it in mere hostility to the religion of Mahomet; I am fully conscious of many values and virtues in it; but certainly it was Islam that was the invasion and Christendom that was the thing invaded.