It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans.

You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.

He has come to the most dreadful conclusion a literary man can come to, the conclusion that the ordinary view is the right one. It is only the last and wildest kind of courage that can stand on a tower before ten thousand people and tell them that twice two is four.

In the main, and from the beginning of time, mysticism has kept men sane. The thing that has driven them mad was logic.

Whatever else we may say of our own age, for good or evil, nobody is likely to call it an Age of Reason.

Where does a wise man kick a pebble? On the beach. Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest.

If you attempt an actual argument with a modern paper of opposite politics, you will have no answer except slanging or silence.