But those dealing in the actual manufacture of mind are dealing in a very explosive material. The material is not merely the clay of which man is master, but the truths or semblances of truth which have a certain mastery over man. The material is explosive because it must be taken seriously. The men writing books really are throwing bombs.

Love is not blind; that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound; and the more it is bound the less it is blind.

The Catholic Church is the only thing that saves man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age.

What are we going to do?" asked the Professor. "At this moment," said Syme, with a scientific detachment, "I think we are going to smash into a lamppost.

Children feel the whiteness of the lily with a graphic and passionate clearness which we cannot give them at all. The only thing we can give them is information-the information that if you break the lily in two it won't grow again.

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

Men reform a thing by removing the reality from it, and then do not know what to do with the unreality that is left.