If the State does not acquire supremacy over [vast private] enterprises, it becomes their puppet, and they become the real State.

Shakespeare . . . If he does not give you delight, you had better ignore him [if you can].

In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.

All human activity is prompted by desire.

I am as drunk as a lord, but then, I am one, so what does it matter ?

The Church no longer contends that knowledge is in itself sinful, though it did so in its palmy days; but the acquisition of knowledge, even though not sinful, is dangerous, since it may lead to pride of intellect, and hence to a questioning of the Christian dogma.

All knowledge, we feel, must be built up upon our instinctive beliefs; and if these are rejected, nothing is left.