In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.

History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.

Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; [but] a creed is always sensitive.

A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

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.

Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties.

We live merely on the crust or rind of things.