It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

There are no new lies, no new heresies. Man is simply not that creative.

Stated baldly, charity certainly means one of two things–pardoning unpardonable acts, or loving unlovable people.

How much happier you would be, how much more of you there would be, if the hammer of a higher God could smash your small cosmos.

A man must be prepared not only to be a martyr, but to be a fool. It is absurd to say that a man is ready to toil and die for his convictions if he is not even ready to wear a wreathe around his head for them.

For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity; the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the Calvinist.