The beautification of the world is not a work of nature, but a work of art, then it involves an artist.

Very few people in the world would care to listen to the real defense of their own characters. The real defense, the defense which belongs to the Day of Judgment, would make such damaging admissions, would clear away so many artificial virtues, would tell such tragedies of weakness and failure, that a man would sooner be misunderstood and censured by the world than exposed to that awful and merciless eulogy.

The modern materialists are not permitted to doubt; they are forbidden to believe.

All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.

It is not merely true that a creed unites men. Nay, a difference of creed unites men - so long as it is a clear difference. A boundary unites. Many a magnanimous Moslem and chivalrous Crusader must have been nearer to each other, because they were both dogmatists, than any two agnostics. "I say God is One," and "I say God is One but also Three," that is the beginning of a good quarrelsome, manly friendship.

If you attempt an actual argument with a modern paper of opposite politics, you will have no answer except slanging or silence.

Not only does "orthodox" no longer mean being right, it practically means being wrong.