We can’t turn life into a pleasure. But we can choose such pleasures as are worthy of us and our immortal souls.

It is a good sign in a nation when things are done badly. It shows that all the people are doing them. And it is bad sign in a nation when such things are done very well, for it shows that only a few experts and eccentrics are doing them, and that the nation is merely looking on.

Only men to whom the family is sacred will ever have a standard or a status by which to criticize the State. They alone can appeal to something more holy than the gods of the city.

A great man knows he is not God, and the greater he is the better he knows it.

What we call emancipation is always and of necessity simply the free choice of the soul between one set of limitations and another.

It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans.

We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press... It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.