The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.

(Tradition) is the democracy of the dead.

For the only courage worth calling courage must necessarily mean that the soul passes a breaking point and does not break.

People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature; people wonder why it is read more than books of science or books of metaphysics. The reason is very simple; it is merely that the novel is more true than they are.

The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.

[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.

For my part, I should be inclined to suggest that the chief object of education should be to restore simplicity. If you like to put it so, the chief object of education is not to learn things; nay, the chief object of education is to unlearn things.