There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite, are necessarily men of violence. We speak of 'touching' a man's heart, but we can do nothing to his head but hit it.

Some of the most frantic lies on the face of life are told with modesty and restraint; for the simple reason that only modesty and restraint will save them.

How much happier you would be, how much more of you there would be, if the hammer of a higher God could smash your small cosmos.

Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.

[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.

I believe in preaching to the converted; for I have generally found that the converted do not understand their own religion.