It is far better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains.

Rome is the one great spiritual organisation which is able to resist and must, as a matter of life and death, the progress of science and modern civilization

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued.

'Infidel' is a term of reproach, which Christians and Mohammedans, in their modesty, agree to apply to those who differ from them.

We are prone to see what lies behind our eyes, rather than what apprears before them.

To quarrel with the uncertainty that besets us in intellectual affairs would be about as reasonable as to object to live one's life with due thought for the morrow because no man can be sure he will alive an hour hence.