[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.

The martyr endured tortures to affirm his belief in truth but he never asserted his disbelief in torture.

Like every book I never wrote, it is by far the best book I have ever written.

The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

It is quite an old-fashioned fallacy to suppose that our objection to scepticism is that it removes the discipline from life. Our objection to scepticism is that it removes the motive power. Materialism is not a thing which destroys mere restraint. Materialism itself is the great restraint.