Herd pressure is to be judged by two things: first, its intensity, and second, its direction.

If you question any candid person who is no longer young, he is very likely to tell you that, having tasted life in this world, he has no wish to begin again as a "new boy" in another.

The use of self control is like the use of brakes on train. It is useful when you find yourself in wrong direction but merely harmful when the direction is right

More cranks take up unfashionable errors than unfashionable truths.

Moral indignation is one of the most harmful forces in the modern world, the more so as it can always be diverted to sinister uses by those who control propaganda.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

The Eugenic Society . . . is perpetually bewailing the fact that wage-earners breed faster than middle-class people.