Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

I did try to found a little heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy.

Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.

The most poetical thing in the world is not being sick.

Were Patrick Henry to return to earth and look around on the vast economic order of the day, he might revise his observation and merely say ‘Give me death’-the alternative being manifestly impossible under modern conditions.

A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

Not only does "orthodox" no longer mean being right, it practically means being wrong.