There is nothing more startling in human relations that the strong emotion of weak people.

I wanted to show how a man of sensitive and noble character, born for religion, comes to throw off the orthodoxies of his day and moment, and to go out into the wilderness where all is experiment, and spiritual life begins again.

I regard the whole university system as a wretched sham. Knowledge! It has no more to do with knowledge than my boots.

There is a tyrannical element in all fanaticism, an element which makes opposition a torment.

The only thing which can keep journalism alive - journalism, which is born of the moment, serves the moment, and, as a rule, dies with the moment - is - again the Stevensonian secret! - charm.

As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted.

Conviction is the conscience of the mind.