Wonderful things, horses. Never know what they will do, or won't do.

Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen.

The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation.

there is no fanatic like a religious fanatic.

... the belief in a superstratum of human beings ... is the most evil of all beliefs. For when you say, 'I am not as other men' -- you have lost the two most valuable qualities we have ever tried to attain: -- humility and brotherhood.

Evil is not any superhuman, but it is HUMAN.

Heather Badcock meant no harm. She never did mean harm, but there is no doubt that people like Heather Badcock (and like my old friend Alison Wilde), are capable of doing a lot of harm because they lack - not kindness, they have kindness - but any real consideration for the way their actions may affect other people. She though always of what an action meant to her, never sparing a thought to what it might mean to somebody else.