In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

Indeed the Book of Job avowedly only answers mystery with mystery. Job is comforted with riddles; but he is comforted. Herein is indeed a type, in the sense of a prophecy, of things speaking with authority. For when he who doubts can only say, ‘I do not understand,’ it is true that he who knows can only reply or repeat ‘You do not understand.’ And under that rebuke there is always a sudden hope in the heart; and the sense of something that would be worth understanding.

A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality.

What is called matriarchy is simply moral anarchy, in which the mother alone remains fixed because all the fathers are fugitive and irresponsible.

What is the good of telling a community that it has every liberty except the liberty to make laws? The liberty to make laws is what constitutes a free people.

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

Bigotry is an incapacity to conceive seriously the alternative to a proposition.