The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

The academic mind reflects infinity, and is full of light by the simple process of being shallow and standing still.

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

If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals, it is the modern strengthening of minor morals.

The secularists have not wrecked divine things; but the secularists have wrecked secular things, if that is any comfort to them. The Titans did not scale heaven; but they laid waste the world.

These are the things which might conceivably and truly make men forgive their enemies. We can only turn hate to love by understanding what are the things that men have loved; nor is it necessary to ask men to hate their loves in order to love one another. Just as two grocers are most likely to be reconciled when they remember for a moment that they are two fathers, so two nationals are most likely to be reconciled when they remember (if only for a moment) that they are two patriots.

She had never really listened to anyone in her life; which, some said, was why she had survived.