A great man knows he is not God, and the greater he is the better he knows it.

Thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste.

Tolerance is a virtue of people who don't believe in anything anymore.

My brain and this world don't fit each other; and there's an end of it.

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

Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.

IF we desire European civilization to be a raid and a rescue, we shall insist rather that souls are in real peril than that their peril is ultimately unreal. And if we wish to exalt the outcast and the crucified, we shall rather wish to think that a veritable God was crucified, rather than a mere sage or hero. Above all, if we wish to protect the poor we shall be in favour of fixed rules and clear dogmas. The rules of a club are occasionally in favour of the poor member. The drift of a club is always in favour of the rich one.