The great misfortune of the modern English is not at all that they are more boastful than other people (they are not); it is that they are boastful about those particular things which nobody can boast of without losing them.
Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
The modern materialists are not permitted to doubt; they are forbidden to believe.
Most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules; it is rather that we are too timid to endure responsibilities.
In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities...it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood.
By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.
A great curse has fallen upon modern life with the discovery of the vastness of the word Education.
There are two kinds of paradoxes. They are not so much the good and the bad, nor even the true and the false. Rather they are the fruitful and the barren; the paradoxes which produce life and the paradoxes that merely announce death. Nearly all modern paradoxes merely announce death.
The moderns do not realize modernity.
Modern man is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners.
Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
The modern world... has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.
If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals it is the modern strengthening of minor morals.