The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.

The past is democratic, because it is a people. The future is despotic, because it is a caprice. Every man is alone in his prediction, just as each man is alone in a dream.

The man who kills a man kills a man. The man who kills himself kills all men. As far as he is concerned, he wipes out the world.

Latter-day scepticism is fond of calling itself progressive; but scepticism is really reactionary. Scepticism goes back; it attempts to unsettle what has already been settled. Instead of trying to break up new fields with its plough, it simply tries to break up the plough.

A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.

There is a corollary to the conception of being too proud to fight. It is that the humble have to do most of the fighting.

The power which makes a man able to entertain a good impulse is the same as that which enables him to make a good gun; it is imagination.