Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.

A mystic is a man who separates heaven and earth even if he enjoys them both.

[Marxism will] in a generation or so [go] into the limbo of most heresies, but meanwhile it will have poisoned the Russian Revolution.

I would rather a boy learnt in the roughest school the courage to hit a politician, or gained in the hardest school the learning to refute him - rather than that he should gain in the most enlightened school the cunning to copy him.

America has a new delicacy, a coarse, rank refinement.

Religious unity can look like a carnival and religious liberty can look like a funeral.

He has come to the most dreadful conclusion a literary man can come to, the conclusion that the ordinary view is the right one. It is only the last and wildest kind of courage that can stand on a tower before ten thousand people and tell them that twice two is four.