Skepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only; it is moral also; a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. A man lives by believing something; not by debating and arguing about many things. A sad case for him when all that he can manage to believe is something he can button in his pocket, and with one or the other organ eat and digest! Lower than that he will not get.

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

Unity, agreement, is always silent or soft-voiced; it is only discord that loudly proclaims itself.

A greater number of God's creatures believe in Mahomet's word at this hour than in any other word whatever. Are we to suppose that it was a miserable piece of spiritual legerdemain, this which so many creatures of the almighty have lived by and died by?

There is but one temple in this Universe: The Body. We speak to God whenever we lay our hands upon it.

Lives the man that can figure a naked Duke of Windlestraw addressing a naked House of Lords?

Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business: and gives in the long run a net result of zero.