Sometimes he even embarrassed the company by phrases suggesting that there was some difference between a Liberal and a Conservative.

Wit is a sword; it is meant to make people feel the point as well as see it.

Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.

Science boasts of the distance of its stars; of the terrific remoteness of the things of which it has to speak. But poetry and religion always insist upon the proximity, the almost menacing closeness of the things with which they are concerned. Always the Kingdom of Heaven is "At Hand."

The old assumption of the approximate impossibility of war really rested on a similar assumption about the impossibility of evil-and especially of evil in high places.

If, therefore, nonsense is really to be the literature of the future, it must have its own version of the Cosmos to offer; the world must not only be tragic, romantic, and religious, it must be nonsensical also.

The average woman is at the head of something with which she can do as she likes; the average man has to obey orders and do nothing else.