Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

The human race is always trying this dodge of making everything entirely easy; but the difficulty which it shifts off one thing it shifts to another.

It is the chief value of legend to mix up the centuries while preserving the sentiment.

Progress is the mother of all problems.

These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.

Dogma is actually the only thing that cannot be separated from education. It IS education. A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching. There are no uneducated people; only most people are educated wrong. The true task of culture today is not a task of expansion, but of selection-and-rejection. The educationist must find a creed and teach it.

I did try to found a little heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy.