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

We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.

They say travel broadens the mind, but you must have the mind.

Truth is sacred; and if you tell the truth too often nobody will believe it.

There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.

The moderns do not realize modernity.

One of the chief uses of religion is that it makes us remember our coming from darkness, the simple fact that we are created.