Morality did not begin by one man saying to another, "I will not hit you if you do not hit me"; there is no trace of such a transaction. There IS a trace of both men having said, "We must not hit each other in the holy place.

It is still bad taste to be an avowed atheist. But now it is equally bad taste to be an avowed Christian.

The coming peril is the intellectual, educational, psychological and artistic overproduction, which, equally with economic overproduction, threatens the well-being of contemporary civilisation. People are inundated, blinded, deafened, and mentally paralysed by a flood of vulgar and tasteless externals, leaving them no time for leisure, thought, or creation from within themselves.

Lord! what a strange world in which a man cannot remain unique even by taking the trouble to go mad!

What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.

I have little doubt that when St. George had killed the dragon he was heartily afraid of the princess.

Every man who will not have softening of the heart must at last have softening of the brain