Men rush towards complexity, but they yearn towards simplicity. They try to be kings; but they dream of being shepherds.

The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.

Price is a crazy and incalculable thing, while Value is an intrinsic and indestructible thing.

The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.

The books that influence the world are those that it has not read.

In the struggle for existence, it is only on those who hang on for ten minutes after all is hopeless, that hope begins to dawn.

He is only a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of the Conservative.