Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.

It is true that there is a thing crudely called charity, which means charity to the deserving poor; but charity to the deserving is not charity at all, but justice. It is the undeserving who require it, and the ideal either does not exist at all, or exists wholly for them.

Whatever the word "great" means, Dickens was what it means.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought.