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

The perils, rewards, punishments, and fulfillments of an adventure must be real, or the adventure is only a shifting and heartless nightmare. If I bet I must be made to pay, or there is no poetry in betting. If I challenge I must be made to fight, or there is no poetry in challenging. If I vow to be faithful I must be cursed when I am unfaithful, or there is no fun vowing.

Big Business and State Socialism are very much alike, especially Big Business.

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

According to most philosophers, God in making the world enslaved it. According to Christianity, in making it, He set it free. God had written, not so much a poem, but rather a play; a play he had planned as perfect, but which had necessarily been left to human actors and stage-managers, who had since made a great mess of it.

There is, therefore, about all complete conviction a kind of huge helplessness.

A man must be orthodox upon most things, or he will never even have time to preach his own heresy.