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.

In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own?

There is no better test of a man's ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong... A stiff apology is a second insult.

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.

Before the Roman came to Rye or out to severn strode, / The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road.

Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government.

I believe in preaching to the converted; for I have generally found that the converted do not understand their own religion.