There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.

I should say that psycho-analysis was confession without absolution.

How much larger your life would be if you were smaller in it.

The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected.

What life and death may be to a turkey is not my business; but the soul of Scrooge and the body of Cratchit are my business.

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

Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.