The modern majesty consists in work. What a man can do is his greatest ornament, and he always consults his dignity by doing it.

I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.

In a certain sense all men are historians.

Science has done much for us; but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude of Nescience, on which all science swims as a mere superficial film.

Evil and good are everywhere, like shadow and substance; inseparable (for men) yet not hostile, only opposed.

That a Parliament, especially a Parliament with Newspaper Reporters firmly established in it, is an entity which by its very nature cannot do work, but can do talk only.

Authors are the vanguard in the march of mind, the intellectual backwoodsmen, reclaiming from the idle wilderness new territories for the thought and activity of their happier brethren.