Nothing is more cruel to the young than to tell them that the world is made for youth.

I often think when a man's once past a certain age, the older he grows the tougher he gets, and women the same or more so.

Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him.

It was left for the present age to endow Covetousness with glamour on a big scale, and to give it a title which it could carry like a flag. It occurred to somebody to call it Enterprise. From the moment of that happy inspiration, Covetousness has gone forward and never looked back.

A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.

And heresy is, as I have tried to show, largely the expression of opinion of the untutored average man, trying to grapple with the problems of the universe at the point where they begin to interfere with his daily life and thought.

We are much too much inclined in these days to divide people into permanent categories, forgetting that a category only exists for its special purpose and must be forgotten as soon as that purpose is served.