Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.

Religion will not regain its old power until it can face change in the same spirit as does science.

Governments are best classified by considering who are the 'somebodies' they are in fact endeavouring to satisfy.

It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.

The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future.

What the learned world tends to offer is one second-hand scrap of information illustrating ideas derived from another second-hand scrap of information. The second-handedness of the learned world is the secret of its mediocrity.