We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed

Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.

The oligarchic character of the modern English commonwealth does not rest, like many oligarchies, on the cruelty of the rich to the poor. It does not even rest on the kindness of the rich to the poor. It rests on the perennial and unfailing kindness of the poor to the rich.

A great curse has fallen upon modern life with the discovery of the vastness of the word Education.

Art is the signature of man.

A citizen can hardly distinguish between a tax and a fine, except that the fine is generally much lighter.

It is quite an old-fashioned fallacy to suppose that our objection to scepticism is that it removes the discipline from life. Our objection to scepticism is that it removes the motive power. Materialism is not a thing which destroys mere restraint. Materialism itself is the great restraint.