...but this is the real objection to that torrent of modern talk about treating crime as disease, about making prison merely a hygienic environment like a hospital, of healing sin by slow scientific methods. The fallacy of the whole thing is that evil is a matter of active choice whereas disease is not.

[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.

I am not fighting a hopeless fight. People who have fought in real fights don't, as a rule.

I entertain a private suspicion that physical sports were much more really effective and beneficent when they were not taken quite so seriously. One of the first essentials of sport being healthy is that it should be delightful; it is rapidly becoming a false religion with austerities and prostrations.

If an editor can only make people angry enough, they will write half his newspaper for him for nothing.

Certain new theologians dispute original sin, which is the only part of Christian theology which can really be proved.

The full potentialities of human fury cannot be reached until a friend of both parties tactfully intervenes.