It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.

The more we are certain what good is, the more we shall see good in everything.

Any man who preaches real love is bound to beget hate. It is as true of democratic fraternity as a divine love; sham love ends in compromise and common philosophy; but real love has always ended in bloodshed.

The truth is that there are no things for which men will make such herculean efforts as the things of which they know they are unworthy.

Joy, which was the small publicity of the pagan, is the gigantic secret of the Christian.

If you attempt an actual argument with a modern paper of opposite politics, you will have no answer except slanging or silence.

There are two kinds of peacemakers in the modern world; and they are both, though in various ways, a nuisance. The first peacemaker is the man who goes about saying that he agrees with everybody. He confuses everybody. The second peacemaker is the man who goes about saying that everybody agrees with him. He enrages everybody. Between the two of them they produce a hundred times more disputes and distractions than we poor pugnacious people would ever have thought of in our lives.