Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.

If I did not believe in God, I should still want my doctor, my lawyer and my banker to do so.

And though St. John saw many strange monsters in his vision, he saw no creature so wild as one of his own commentators.

It is the friction of two spiritual things, of tradition and invention, or of substance and symbol, from which the mind takes fire. The creeds condemned as complex have something like the secret of sex; they can breed thoughts.

Every politician is emphatically a promising politician.

Acceptance is the truest kinship with humanity.

The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.