The very man who has argued you down, will sometimes be found, years later, to have been influenced by what you said

Don't say it was delightful; make us say delightful when we've read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers Please will you do the job for me.

One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.

Monarchy can easily be "debunked," but watch the faces, mark well the debunkers. These are the men whose taproot in Eden has been cut: whom no rumour of the polyphony, the dance, can reach - men to whom pebbles laid in a row are more beautiful than an arch. Where men are forbidden to honour a king they honour millionaires, athletes or film stars instead: For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.

No people find each other more absurd than lovers

What do they teach them at these schools?

Without sin, the universe is a Solemn Game: and there is no good game without rules.