The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.

''My country, right or wrong'' is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying ''My mother, drunk or sober.''

My country wrong or right, is like saying my mother, drunk or sober.

Silence is the unbearable repartee.

Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

The chief assertion of religious morality is that white is a color. Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell.

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

New roads; new ruts.