The modern world is a crowd of very rapid racing cars all brought to a standstill and stuck in a block of traffic.

We are passing into a social phase in which unless a heroic effort is made for human dignity and freedom, gold will be the sole method of government and therefore the sole standard of manners.

Truth is sacred; and if you tell the truth too often nobody will believe it.

Romance is the deepest thing in life. It is deeper than reality.

The secularists have not wrecked divine things; but the secularists have wrecked secular things, if that is any comfort to them. The Titans did not scale heaven; but they laid waste the world.

I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.