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.

If you cannot attain knowledge without torturing a dog, you must do without knowledge.

Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place. They teach you to be a gentleman there. In the polytechnic they teach you to be an engineer or such like. See?

The world was to Shakespeare a great stage of fools on which he was utterly bewildered. His pregnant observations of life are not coordinated into any philosophy.

Start with the belief that your life can indeed be changed, and that you have the power to change it.

What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults.

My heart, my heart, be whole and free: Love is thine only enemy.