The only object of liberty is life.

It is the main earthly business of a human being to make his home, and the immediate surroundings of his home, as symbolic and significant to his own imagination as he can.

As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly.

It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.

Man is at his tallest when he bows.

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.

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.