It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.

Youth is always too serious, and just now it is too serious about frivolity.

Nothing is so remote from us as the thing which is not old enough to be history and not new enough to be news.

Many clever men like you have trusted to civilization. Many clever Babylonians, many clever Egyptians, many clever men at the end of Rome. Can you tell me, in a world that is flagrant with the failures of civilisation, what there is particularly immortal about yours?

Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.

Literature and fiction are two entirely different things. Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

The secularists have not wrecked divine things; but the secularists have wrecked secular things, if that is any comfort to them. The Titans did not scale heaven; but they laid waste the world.