You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world.

The best kind of giving is thanksgiving.

The moderns do not realize modernity.

Earth will grow worse till men redeem it, And wars more evil, ere all wars cease.

Meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain. Meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure.

Though the academic authorities are actually proud of conducting everything by means of Examinations, they seldom indulge in what religious people used to descibe as Self-Examination. The consequence is that the modern State has educated its citizens in a series of ephemeral fads.

Mr. Blatchford says that there was not a Fall but a gradual rise. But the very word "rise" implies that you know toward what you are rising. Unless there is a standard you cannot tell whether you are rising or falling. But the main point is that the Fall like every other large path of Christianity is embodied in the common language talked on the top of an omnibus. Anybody might say, "Very few men are really Manly." Nobody would say, "Very few whales are really whaley."