The average woman is at the head of something with which she can do as she likes; the average man has to obey orders and do nothing else.

The central idea of poetry is the idea of guessing right, like a child.

If man is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust.

For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.

It is always the secure who are humble.

The wisest thing in the world is to cry out before you are hurt. It is no good to cry out after you are hurt; especially after you are mortally hurt. People talk about the impatience of the populace; but sound historians know that most tyrannies have been possible because men moved too late. it is often essential to resist a tyranny before it exists.

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