Evil always wins through the strength of its splendid dupes; and there has in all ages been a disastrous alliance between abnormal innocence and abnormal sin.

You'll never find the solution if you don't see the problem.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.

I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.

Time and again, the Faith has to all appearances gone to the dogs. But each time, it was the dog that died.

The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.