It is hard to make government representative when it is also remote.

When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.

That all war is physically frightful is obvious; but if that were a moral verdict, there would be no difference between a torturer and a surgeon. There are certain intellectuals who are too bright to be content with merely praising peace but who are infuriated by anybody praising war. If no war is possible, all criminality has its chance

We're all in the same boat, and we're all seasick.

The poor complain that they are governed badly. The rich complain that they are governed at all.

There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.