Now there is any amount of this nonsense cropping up among American cranks. Anybody may propose to establish coercive Eugenics; or enforce psychoanalysis that is, enforce confession without absolution.

I am the fool in this story, and no rebel shall hurl me from my throne.

Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought.

And though St. John saw many strange monsters in his vision, he saw no creature so wild as one of his own commentators.

It is customary to complain of the bustle and strenuousness of our epoch. But in truth the chief mark of our epoch is a profound laziness and fatigue; and the fact is that the real laziness is the cause of the apparent bustle.

The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.

When a person has found something which he prefers to life itself, he for the first time has begun to live.