One can sometimes do good by being the right person in the wrong place.

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.

It is easy to be heavy: hard to be light.

There is no bigot like the atheist.

It's not the world that's got so much worse but the news coverage that's got so much better.

People decided that it was impossible to achieve any of the good of Socialism, but they comforted themselves by achieving all the bad.

It never occurred to him to be spiritually won over to the enemy. Many moderns, inured to a weak worship of intellect and force, might have wavered in their allegiance under this oppression of a great personality. . . . But this was a kind of modern meanness to which Syme could not sink even in his extreme morbidity. Like any man, he was coward enough to fear great force; but he was not coward enough to admire it.