Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous.

English character and English freedom depend comparatively little on the form which the Constitution assumes at Westminster. A centralised democracy may be as tyrannical as an absolute monarch; and if the vigour of the nation is to continue unimpaired, each individual, each family, each district, must preserve as far as possible its independence, its self-completeness, its powers and its privilege to manage its own affairs and think its own thoughts.

To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.

I have long been convinced that the Christian Eucharist is but a continuation of the Eleusinian mysteries. St Paul, in using the word teleiois, almost confirms this.

Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.

The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith.

The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.