When we know what God is, we shall be gods ourselves.

Our way of getting an army able to fight the German army is to declare war on Germany just as if we had such an army, and then trust to the appalling resultant peril and disaster to drive us into wholesale enlistment.

[...] any fool can make a discovery. Every baby has to discover more in the first years of its life than Roger Bacon ever discovered in his laboratory.

There are scores of thousands of human insects who are ready at a moment's notice to reveal the Will of God on every possible subject

It is doubtless wise, when a reform is introduced, to try to persuade the British public that it is not a reform at all; but appearances must be kept up to some extent at least.

The nation's morals are like its teeth: the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them.

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.