I am not fighting a hopeless fight. People who have fought in real fights don't, as a rule.

It is only great men who take up a great space by not being there.

Government has become ungovernable; that is, it cannot leave off governing. Law has become lawless; that is, it cannot see where laws should stop. The chief feature of our time is the meekness of the mob and the madness of the government.

Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.

The mind moves by instincts, associations and premonitions and not by fixed dates or completed processes. Action and reaction will occur simultaneously: or the cause actually be found after the effect. Errors will be resisted before they have been properly promulgated: notions will be first defined long after they are dead.

Blessed is he that expecteth nothing, for he shall be gloriously surprised.

The pure modernist is merely a snob; he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion.