Do not mistake your objection to defeat for an objection to fighting, your objection to being a slave for an objection to slavery, your objection to not being as rich as your neighbor for an objection to poverty. The cowardly, the insubordinate, and the envious share your objections.

If the wicked flourish and the fittest survive, Nature must be the God of rascals.

When we learn to sing that Britons never will be masters we shall make an end of slavery.

The reformer for whom the world is not good enough finds himself shoulder to shoulder with him that is not good enough for the world.

In moments of progress the noble succeed, because things are going their way: in moments of decadence the base succeed for the same reason: hence the world is never without the exhilaration of contemporary success.

Decadence can find agents only when it wears the mask of progress.

Mens sana in corpore sano is a foolish saying. The sound body is a product of the sound mind.

No man dares say so much of what he thinks as to appear to himself an extremist.

We are told that when Jehovah created the world he saw that it was good. What would he say now?

The conversion of a savage to Christianity is the conversion of Christianity to savagery.