I expect you have seen someone put a a lighted match to a bit of newspaper which is propped up in a grate against an unlit fire. And for a second nothing seems to have happened; and then you notice a tiny steak of flame creeping along the edged of the newspaper. It was like that now.

The game is to have them all running about with fire extinguishers when there is a flood, and all crowding to that side of the boat which is already nearly gunwale under.

Put first things first and we get second things thrown in: put second things first & we lose both first and second things.

[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not.

Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it.

Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.

Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes. We all, therefore, need the books that will correct the characteristic mistake of our own period. And that means the old books.