The moderns do not realize modernity.

Every man who will not have softening of the heart must at last have softening of the brain

Even in a minute instance, it is best to look first to the main tendencies of Nature. A particular flower may not be dead in early winter, but the flowers are dying; a particular pebble may never be wetted with the tide, but the tide is coming in. To the scientific eye all human history is a series of collective movements, destructions or migrations, like the massacre of flies in winter or the return of birds in spring.

America is the only country ever founded on a creed.

Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.

Pride consists in a man making his personality the only test, instead of making truth the test. The sceptic feels himself too large to measure life by the largest things; and ends by measuring it by the smallest thing of all.

Why be something to everybody when you can be everything to somebody?