Fear is choosing the safe course

I am giving you examples of the fact that this creature man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero. . . . I tell you, gentlemen, if you can shew a man a piece of what he now calls God's work to do, and what he will later call by many new names, you can make him entirely reckless of the consequences to himself personally.

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

Morality consists of suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Rebecca [West] can handle a pen as brilliantly as ever I could and much more savagely.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

What we are confronted with now is a growing perception that if we desire a certain type of civilization and culture we must exterminate the sort of people who do not fit into it.