Progress is Providence without God. That is, it is a theory that everything has always perpetually gone right by accident. It is a sort of atheistic optimism, based on an everlasting coincidence far more miraculous than a miracle.

Always be comic in a tragedy. What the deuce else can you do?

He is only a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of the Conservative.

of being strong and brave. The strong can not be brave. Only the weak can be brave; and yet again, in practice, only those who can be brave can be trusted, in time of doubt, to be strong.

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.

The real pleasure-seeking is the combination of luxury and austerity in such a way that the luxury can really be felt.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.