But if it ever occurs to people to value the honor of the mind equally with the honor of the body, we shall get a social revolution of a quite unparalleled sort — and very different from the kind that is being made at the moment.

We shall know what things are of overmastering importance when they have overmastered us.

whereas, up to the present, there is only one known way of getting born, there are endless ways of getting killed.

There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end, simply because the public will have learnt all the tricks.

the heaviest restriction upon the freedom of public opinion is not the official censorship of the Press, but the unofficial censorship by a Press which exists not so much to express opinion as to manufacture it.

Britain possesses no climate, only weather.

The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.