Syllables govern the world.

Assasination on the scaffold is the worst form of assasination, because there it is invested with the approval of society.

Tradition will accustom people to any atrocity

You can rave about Stravinsky without the slightest risk of being classified as a lunatic by the next generation .

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams; but I look after the drainage.

We call the one side [of humanity] religion, and we call the other science. Religion is always right. ... Science is always wrong; it is the very artifice of men. Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems.