A man making the confession of any creed worth ten minutes' intelligent talk, is always a man who gains something and gives up something. So long as he does both he can create: for he is making an outline and a shape.

There should be a burnished tablet let into the ground on the spot where some courageous man first ate Stilton cheese, and survived.

The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.

We lose our bearings entirely by speaking of the 'lower classes' when we mean humanity minus ourselves.

If it's worth doing, it's worth doing badly. (on not perfectionism to put things off) .

The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.

The poetry of art is in beholding the single tower; the poetry of nature in seeing the single tree; the poetry of love in following the single woman; the poetry of religion in worshipping the single star.