An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

It is true that I am of an older fashion; much that I love has been destroyed or sent into exile.

Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites, by keeping them both, and keeping them both furious.

None of the modern machines, none of the modern paraphernalia. . . have any power except over the people who choose to use them.

It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.

Earnest Freethinkers need not worry themselves so much about the persecutions of the past. Before the Liberal idea is dead or triumphant we shall see wars and persecutions the like of which the world has never seen.

It is a quaint comment on the notion that the English are practical and the French merely visionary, that we were rebels in arts while they were rebels in arms.