IF we desire European civilization to be a raid and a rescue, we shall insist rather that souls are in real peril than that their peril is ultimately unreal. And if we wish to exalt the outcast and the crucified, we shall rather wish to think that a veritable God was crucified, rather than a mere sage or hero. Above all, if we wish to protect the poor we shall be in favour of fixed rules and clear dogmas. The rules of a club are occasionally in favour of the poor member. The drift of a club is always in favour of the rich one.

Earnest Freethinkers need not worry themselves so much about the persecutions of the past. Before the Liberal idea is dead or triumphant we shall see wars and persecutions the like of which the world has never seen.

It was not the house that grew dull, but I that grew dull in it. My wife was better than all women, and yet I could not feel it.

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.

But there is in everything a reasonable division of labour. I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce me to read it.

Love is not blind; that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound; and the more it is bound the less it is blind.

Thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste.