Nothing is wonderful except in the abnormal, and nothing is abnormal until we have grasped the norm.

It is in their 'good' characters that novelists make, unawares, the most shocking self- revelations.

The world was made partly that there may be prayer; partly that our prayers might be answered.

In a word, we may reasonably hope for the virtual abolition of education when I'm as good as you has fully had its way. All incentives to learn and all penalties for not learning will vanish.The few who might want to learn will be prevented; who are they to overtop their fellows? And anyway the teachers-or should I say, nurses?-will be far too busy reassuring the dunces and patting them on the back to waste any time on real teaching. We shall no longer have to plan and toil to spread imperturable conceit and incurable ignorance among men. The little vermin themselves will do it for us.

Your people eat dry and tasteless flesh but it is off plates as smooth as ivory and as round as the sun.

There is a difficulty about disagreeing with God. He is the source from which all your reasoning power comes: you could not be right and he wrong any more than a stream can rise higher than its own source. When you are arguing against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on.

Tea should be taken in solitude.