A nap, my friend, is a brief period of sleep which overtakes superannuated persons when they endeavor to entertain unwelcome visitors or to listen to scientific lectures.

Who are those we love? Only those we do not hate.

If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.

If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.

What I say today everybody will say tomorrow, though they will not remember who put it into their heads. Indeed they will be right for I never remember who puts things into my head : it is the Zeitgeist.

With the exception of capitalism, there is nothing so revolting as revolution.

Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.