A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been exactly reversed.

We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed

It's not that we don't have enough scoundrels to curse; it's that we don't have enough good men to curse them.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

Literary men are being employed to praise a big business man personally, as men used to praise a king. They not only find political reasons for the commercial schemes that they have done for some time past they also find moral defences for the commercial schemers... I do resent the whole age of patronage being revived under such absurd patrons; and all poets becoming court poets, under kings that have taken no oath.

The Christian is quite free to believe that there is a considerable amount of settled order and inevitable development in the universe. But the materialist is not allowed to admit into his spotless machine the slightest speck of spiritualism or miracle.

With every step of our lives we enter into the middle of some story which we are certain to misunderstand.