Somehow one can never manage to be an atheist.

And though St. John saw many strange monsters in his vision, he saw no creature so wild as one of his own commentators.

All we know of the Missing Link is that he is missing - and he won't be missed either.

While once it was the rank and file that cheered with all the partisan passions at their heights, today it is the party leaders who are cheering themselves; and all by themselves. The mob that is their audience is in one vast universal trance, thinking about something else.

Men rush towards complexity, but they yearn towards simplicity. They try to be kings; but they dream of being shepherds.

A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.

There is something to be said for every error; but, whatever may be said for it, the most important thing to be said about it is that it is erroneous.