Lutheranism is essentially German... It worships a God who is neither just nor merciful.

Civilization is being poisoned by its own waste products.

A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.

A monarch frequently represents his subjects better that an elected assembly; and if he is a good judge of character he is likely to have more capable and loyal advisers.

The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and in the passive.

Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.