I am myself so exceedingly Nordic, as far as physical constitution is concerned, that I can enjoy almost any weather except what is called glorious weather. At the end of a few days, I am left wondering how the men of the Mediterranean ever managed to do almost all the most active and astonishing things that have been done.

If we are bound to improve, we need not trouble to improve. The pure doctrine of progress is the best of all reasons for not being a progressive.

You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.

Religious unity can look like a carnival and religious liberty can look like a funeral.

When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.

Either criticism is no good at all (a very defensible position) or else criticism means saying about an author the very things that would have made him jump out of his boots.

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