All progress means war with society.

The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood

All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of storytellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.

The hand of the painter is incurably mechanical: his technique is incurably artificial... The camera... is so utterly unmechanical.

A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.