To say that a man is an idealist is merely to say that he is a man.

As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly.

A good man's work is effected by doing what he does, a woman's by being what she is.

Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when Joy is the fundamental thing in him, and Grief the superficial. Melancholy should be an innocent interlude, a tender and fugitive state of mind; Praise should be the permanent pulsation of the soul. Pessimism is at best an emotional half-holiday; Joy is the uproarious labor by which all things live? Christianity satisfies suddenly and perfectly man's ancestral instinct for being the right way up; satisfies it supremely in this, that by its creed Joy becomes something gigantic, and Sadness something special and small.

A nation is not going mad when it does extravagant things, so long as it does them in an extravagant spirit. But whenever we see things done wildly, but taken tamely, then the State is growing insane.

The martyr endured tortures to affirm his belief in truth but he never asserted his disbelief in torture.

Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.