The modern world... has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.

A child's instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child's hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.

There are arguments for atheism, and they do not depend, and never did depend, upon science. They are arguable enough, as far as they go, upon a general survey of life; only it happens to be a superficial survey of life.

When once you have got hold of a vulgar joke, you may be certain that you have got hold of a subtle and spiritual idea.

White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.

[A pacifist is] the last and least excusable on the list of the enemies of society.

Nothing is so remote from us as the thing which is not old enough to be history and not new enough to be news.