Sublime

He is only a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of the Conservative.

In one sense things can only be equal if they are entirely different.

To say that everybody is responsible means that nobody is responsible.

What is socially humdrum is produced by what is individually heroic; and a city is made not merely of citizens but knight–errants.

All men are mad but the humorist, who cares for nothing and possesses everything.

It had that deeply conservative belief in the most ancient of institutions, the average man, which goes by the name of democracy.

The first and most striking feature is a stupidity that rises into a sort of ghastly innocence.