The modern world is filled with men who hold dogmas so strongly that they do not even know they are dogmas.

America has a new delicacy, a coarse, rank refinement.

A great deal of contemporary criticism reads to me like a man saying, 'Of course I do not like green cheese. I am very fond of brown sherry.

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

Over-civilization and barbarism are within an inch of each other. And a mark of both is the power of medicine-men.

But a somewhat more liberal and sympathetic examination of mankind will convince us that the cross is even older than the gibbet, that voluntary suffering was before and independent of compulsory; and in short that in most important matters a man has always been free to ruin himself if he chose.

Men rush towards complexity, but they yearn towards simplicity. They try to be kings; but they dream of being shepherds.