The men of the East may spell the stars, And times and triumphs mark, But the men signed of the cross of Christ Go gaily in the dark.

Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.

There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally.

Every sane man recognises that unlimited liberty is anarchy, or rather is nonentity. The civic idea of liberty is to give the citizen a province of liberty; a limitation within which a citizen is a king.

He is only a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of the Conservative.

A man looking at a hippopotamus may sometimes be tempted to regard a hippopotamus as an enormous mistake; but he is also bound to confess that a fortunate inferiority prevents him personally from making such mistakes.

What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but absence of self-criticism.