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?

Faith is always at a disadvantage; it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors.

If the devil tells you something is too fearful to look at, look at it. If he says something is too terrible to hear, hear it. If you think some truth unbearable, bear it.

Every one on this earth should believe, amid whatever madness or moral failure, that his life and temperament have some object on the earth. Every one on the earth should believe that he has something to give to the world which cannot otherwise be given.

They say travel broadens the mind, but you must have the mind.

If you spell a word wrong you have some temptation to think it wrong.

Saint George he was for England, And before he killed the dragon he drank a pint of English ale out of an English flagon.