Atheism is indeed the most daring of all dogmas . . . for it is the assertion of a universal negative.

Being 'contented' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.

Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions.

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

Thinking in isolation and with pride ends in being an idiot.

Now, among the heresies that are spoken in this matter is the habit of calling a grey day a "colourless" day. Grey is a colour, and can be a very powerful and pleasing colour.... A grey clouded sky is indeed a canopy between us and the sun; so is a green tree, if it comes to that. But the grey umbrellas differ as much as the green in their style and shape, in their tint and tilt. One day may be grey like steel, and another grey like dove’s plumage. One may seem grey like the deathly frost, and another grey like the smoke of substantial kitchens.

We lose our bearings entirely by speaking of the 'lower classes' when we mean humanity minus ourselves.