What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.

Nine times out of ten it is the coarse word that condemns an evil, and the refined word that excuses it.

The Declaration of Independence dogmatically bases all rights on the fact that God created all men equal; and it is right; for if they were not created equal, they were certainly evolved unequal. There is no basis for democracy except in a dogma about the divine origin of man.

If a man does not talk to himself, it is because he is not worth talking to.

Religious unity can look like a carnival and religious liberty can look like a funeral.