Women have a thirst for order and beauty as for something physical; there is a strange female power of hating ugliness and waste as good men can only hate sin and bad men virtue.

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

It is the mark of our whole modern history that the masses are kept quiet with a fight. They are kept quiet by the fight because it is a sham-fight; thus most of us know by this time that the Party System has been popular only in the sense that a football match is popular.

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.

A tragedy means always a mans struggle with that which is stronger than man.

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.

The martyr endured tortures to affirm his belief in truth but he never asserted his disbelief in torture.