Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government.

Feminists are those who cannot stand female characteristics.

I don't deny," he said, "that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.

If we could destroy custom at a blow and see the stars as a child sees them, we should need no other apocalypse.

IF we desire European civilization to be a raid and a rescue, we shall insist rather that souls are in real peril than that their peril is ultimately unreal. And if we wish to exalt the outcast and the crucified, we shall rather wish to think that a veritable God was crucified, rather than a mere sage or hero. Above all, if we wish to protect the poor we shall be in favour of fixed rules and clear dogmas. The rules of a club are occasionally in favour of the poor member. The drift of a club is always in favour of the rich one.

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

There are an infinity of angles at which one falls, only one at which one stands.