No man's really any good till he knows how bad he is, or might be.

The old religionist cried out for his god. The new religionist cries out for some god to be his.

The old restriction meant that only the orthodox were allowed to discuss religion. Modern liberty means that nobody is allowed to discuss it. Good taste, the last and vilest of human superstitions, has succeeded in silencing us where all the rest have failed.

There is a certain poetic value, and that a genuine one, in this sense of having missed the full meaning of things. There is beauty, not only in wisdom, but in this dazed and dramatic ignorance.

The eagle has no liberty; he only has loneliness.

Evil always wins through the strength of its splendid dupes; and there has in all ages been a disastrous alliance between abnormal innocence and abnormal sin.

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.