The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

We are more gullible and superstitious today than we were in the Middle Ages, and an example of modern credulity is the widespread belief that the Earth is round. The average man can advance not a single reason for thinking that the Earth is round. He merely swallows this theory because there is something about it that appeals to the twentieth century mentality.

Democracy is a word all public men use and none understand.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read.

Poverty blights whole cities; spreads horrible pestilences; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound, or smell of it

No king on earth is as safe in his job as a Trade Union official. There is only one thing that can get him sacked; and that is drink. Not even that, as long as he doesn't actually fall down.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.