Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.

I am the fool in this story, and no rebel shall hurl me from my throne.

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.

Theology is only thought applied to religion.

A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.

We have passed the age of the demagogue, the man who has little to say and says it loud. We have come to the age of the mystagogue or don, the man who has nothing to say, but says it softly and impressively in an indistinct whisper.

What we call emancipation is always and of necessity simply the free choice of the soul between one set of limitations and another.