If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

We are passing into a social phase in which unless a heroic effort is made for human dignity and freedom, gold will be the sole method of government and therefore the sole standard of manners.

If we are bound to improve, we need not trouble to improve. The pure doctrine of progress is the best of all reasons for not being a progressive.

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

The telescope makes the world smaller; it is only the microscope that makes it larger.

[A pacifist is] the last and least excusable on the list of the enemies of society.

But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.