For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers.

There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.

The Party System was founded on one national notion of fair play. It was the notion that folly and futility should be fairly divided between both sides.

Business, especially big business, is now organized like an army. It is, as some would say, a sort of mild militarism without bloodshed; as I say, a militarism without the military virtues.

To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.

There is nothing so weak, for working purposes, as this enormous importance attached to immediate victory. There is nothing that fails like success.

If the world grows to worldly, it can be rebuked by the Church; but if the Church grows to worldly, it cannot be adequately rebuked for worldlyness by the world.