Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites, by keeping them both, and keeping them both furious.

There is nothing so weak, for working purposes, as this enormous importance attached to immediate victory. There is nothing that fails like success.

Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.

Love is not blind; that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound; and the more it is bound the less it is blind.

A man must be prepared not only to be a martyr, but to be a fool. It is absurd to say that a man is ready to toil and die for his convictions if he is not even ready to wear a wreathe around his head for them.

What is education? Properly speaking, there is no such thing as education. Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. Whatever the soul is like, it will have to be passed on somehow, consciously or unconsciously, and that transition may be called education. ... What we need is to have a culture before we hand it down. In other words, it is a truth, however sad and strange, that we cannot give what we have not got, and cannot teach to other people what we do not know ourselves.

Price is a crazy and incalculable thing, while Value is an intrinsic and indestructible thing.