English experience indicates that when the two great political parties agree about something it is generally wrong.

The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.

Properly speaking, of course, there is no such thing as a return to nature, because there is no such thing as a departure from it. The phrase reminds one of the slightly intoxicated gentleman who gets up in his own dining room and declares firmly that he must be getting home.

People decided that it was impossible to achieve any of the good of Socialism, but they comforted themselves by achieving all the bad.

The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world... The reason is obvious. In a large community we can choose our companions. In a small community our companions are chosen for us.

In the main, and from the beginning of time, mysticism has kept men sane. The thing that has driven them mad was logic.

A modern vegetarian is also a teetotaler, yet there is no obvious connection between consuming vegetables and not consuming fermented vegetables. A drunkard, when lifted laboriously out of the gutter, might well be heard huskily to plead that he had fallen there through excessive devotion to a vegetable diet.