Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.

We're all in the same boat, and we're all seasick.

The oligarchic character of the modern English commonwealth does not rest, like many oligarchies, on the cruelty of the rich to the poor. It does not even rest on the kindness of the rich to the poor. It rests on the perennial and unfailing kindness of the poor to the rich.

What we call emancipation is always and of necessity simply the free choice of the soul between one set of limitations and another.

The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.

It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.