It is customary to complain of the bustle and strenuousness of our epoch. But in truth the chief mark of our epoch is a profound laziness and fatigue; and the fact is that the real laziness is the cause of the apparent bustle.

If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments

The pure modernist is merely a snob; he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion.

Classic literature is still something that hangs in the air like a song.

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

When some English moralists write about the importance of having character, they appear to mean only the importance of having a dull character.

It was the people who did not care who filled the world with fire and oppression. It was the hands of the indifferent that lit the faggots; it was the hands of the indifferent that turned the rack.