But if I be asked what sign we may look for to show that the advance of the faith is at hand I would answer by a word the modern world has forgotten: Persecution. When that shall once more be at work it will be morning.

The power of the State must be invoked for restoring economic freedom just as it has been invoked for destroying economic freedom.

Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring.

There are few greater temptations on earth than to stay permanently at Oxford in meditation, and to read all the books in the Bodlean.

When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.

Whatever happens, we have got The Maxim gun, and they have not.

An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight.