The notion that Nature does not proceed by jumps is only one of the budget of plausible lies that we call classical education. Nature always proceeds by jumps. She may spend twenty thousand years making up her mind to jump; but when she makes it up at last, the jump is big enough to take us into a new age.

The business man - the man to whom age brings golf instead of wisdom.

I like a bit of mongrel myself, whether it's a man or a dog.

If associations to control burglary and murder were tolerated we should take it for granted that the members should all be burglers and murderers.

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

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

All professions are conspiracies against the laity.