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.

Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them.

I believe your own accent is inimitable, though I shall practice it in my bath.

What is the good of telling a community that it has every liberty except the liberty to make laws? The liberty to make laws is what constitutes a free people.

Dogma is actually the only thing that cannot be separated from education. It IS education. A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching. There are no uneducated people; only most people are educated wrong. The true task of culture today is not a task of expansion, but of selection-and-rejection. The educationist must find a creed and teach it.

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

The academic mind reflects infinity, and is full of light by the simple process of being shallow and standing still.