The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle

Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other's.

A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

All things are from God; and above all, reason and imagination and the great gifts of the mind. They are good in themselves; and we must not altogether forget their origin even in their perversion.

One can hardly think too little of one's self. One can hardly think too much of one's soul.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.