In the contexts of religion and politics, words are not regarded as standing, rather inadequately, for things and events; on the contrary things and events are regarded as particular illustrations of words.

The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.

The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms.

The inconveniences and horrors of the pox are perfectly well known to every one; but still the disease flourishes and spreads. Several million people were killed in a recent war and half the world ruined; but we all busily go on in courses that make another event of the same sort inevitable. Experientia docet? Experientia doesn't.

The advertisement is one of the most interesting and difficult of modern literary forms.

If the Prince of Peace should come to earth, one of the first things he would do would be to put psychiatrists in their place.

Everyone belongs to everyone else.