Life is indeed terribly complicated—to a man who has lost his principles.

The point is not that this world is too sad to love or too glad not to love; the point is that when you do love a thing, its gladness is a reason for loving it, and its sadness a reason for loving it more.

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.

Plato was right, but not quite right.

It is well sometimes to half understand a poem in the same manner that we half understand the world.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

Christian Science … is the direct denial both of science and of Christianity, for Science rests wholly on the recognition of truth and Christianity on the recognition of pain.