Without authority there is no liberty. Freedom is doomed to destruction at every turn, unless there is a recognized right to freedom. And if there are rights, there is an authority to which we appeal for them.

The lunatic is the man who lives in a small world but thinks it is a large one; he is the man who lives in a tenth of the truth, and thinks it is the whole. The madman cannot conceive any cosmos outside a certain tale or conspiracy or vision.

Every one on the earth should believe that he has something to give to the world which cannot otherwise be given.

This is the age in which thin and theoretic minorities can cover and conquer unconscious and untheoretic majorities.

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

It is still bad taste to be an avowed atheist. But now it is equally bad taste to be an avowed Christian.

Always be comic in a tragedy. What the deuce else can you do?