An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

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.

What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.

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

If I bind the future I bind my will. If I bind my will I strangle creation.

Truth telling is not compatible with the defence of the realm.

A tranquil woman can go on sewing longer than an angry man can go on fuming.