In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

A beetle may or may not be inferior to a man - the matter awaits demonstration; but if he were inferior by ten thousand fathoms, the fact remains that there is probably a beetle view of things of which a man is entirely ignorant. If he wishes to conceive that point of view, he will scarcely reach it by persistently revelling in the fact that he is not a beetle.

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.

Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other's.

There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.

The man who lives in contact with what he believes to be a living Church is a man always expecting to meet Plato and Shakespeare tomorrow at breakfast. He is always expecting to see some truth that he has never seen before.

There are an infinity of angles at which one falls, only one at which one stands.