Why be something to everybody when you can be everything to somebody?

Though I believe in liberalism, I find it difficult to believe in liberals.

The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not say.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity; the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the Calvinist.

The modern materialists are not permitted to doubt; they are forbidden to believe.

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.