Progress is the domination of chaos by mind and purpose, of matter by form and will. It need not be continuous to be real.

Historically the belief in heaven and the belief in utopia are like compensatory buckets in a well: when one goes down the other comes up. When the classic religions decayed, communistic agitation rose in Athens (430 B.C.), and revolution began in Rome (133 B.C.); when these movements failed, resurrection faiths succeeded, culminating in Christianity; when, in our eighteenth century, Christian belief weakened, communism reappeared. In this perspective the future of religion is secure.

Drunkenness was in good repute in England till "Bloody Mary" frowned upon it; it remained popular in Germany. The French drank more stably, not being quite so cold.

A cat has a reputation to protect. If it had a halo, it would be worn cocked to one side.

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

From barbarism to civilization requires a century; from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.

When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty.