It is a mathematical fact that if a line be not perfectly directed towards a point, it will actually go further away from it as it comes nearer to it.

The whole curse of the last century has been what is called the Swing of the Pendulum; that is, the idea that Man must go alternately from one extreme to the other. It is a shameful and even shocking fancy; it is the denial of the whole dignity of the mankind. When Man is alive he stands still. It is only when he is dead that he swings.

A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.

There are two ways of getting home; and one of them is to stay there.

We are all ordinary people. And it's the extraordinary people Who know it.

The real pleasure-seeking is the combination of luxury and austerity in such a way that the luxury can really be felt.

When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.