Be careful how you suggest things to me. For there is in me a madness which goes beyond martyrdom, the madness of an utterly idle man.

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

A man running after a hat is not half so ridiculous as a man running after a woman.

A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.

It is quite an old-fashioned fallacy to suppose that our objection to scepticism is that it removes the discipline from life. Our objection to scepticism is that it removes the motive power. Materialism is not a thing which destroys mere restraint. Materialism itself is the great restraint.

One of the chief uses of religion is that it makes us remember our coming from darkness, the simple fact that we are created.

I have formed a very clear conception of patriotism. I have generally found it thrust into the foreground by some fellow who has something to hide in the background. I have seen a great deal of patriotism; and I have generally found it the last refuge of the scoundrel.