Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite, are necessarily men of violence. We speak of 'touching' a man's heart, but we can do nothing to his head but hit it.

Saint George he was for England, And before he killed the dragon he drank a pint of English ale out of an English flagon.

The old restriction meant that only the orthodox were allowed to discuss religion. Modern liberty means that nobody is allowed to discuss it. Good taste, the last and vilest of human superstitions, has succeeded in silencing us where all the rest have failed.

Teach to the young, men's enduring truths, and let the learned amuse themselves with their passing errors.

It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.

Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these?

The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.