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.

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

I said to him, "Shall I tell you where the men are who believe most in themselves? For I can tell you. I know of men who believe in themselves more colossally than Napoleon or Caesar. I know where flames the fixed star of certainty and success. I can guide you to the thrones of the Super-men. The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.

I am more than a devil; I am a man. I can do the one thing which Satan himself cannot do— I can die.

Coincidence is a spiritual pun.

Comforts that were rare among our forefathers are now multiplied in factories and handed out wholesale; and indeed, nobody nowadays, so long as he is content to go without air, space, quiet, decency and good manners, need be without anything whatever that he wants; or at least a reasonably cheap imitation of it.

It is a mathematical fact that if a line be not perfectly directed towards a point, it will actually go further away from it as it comes nearer to it.