Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.

Mankind is not a tribe of animals to which we owe compassion. Mankind is a club to which we owe our subscription.

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

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.

For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity; the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the Calvinist.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.