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.

When a person has found something which he prefers to life itself, he for the first time has begun to live.

When it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round. The same thing was done, if I remember right, by the Founder of Christianity.

Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .

Even the moon is only poetical because there is a man in the moon.

Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite, are necessarily men of violence. We speak of 'touching' a man's heart, but we can do nothing to his head but hit it.

The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.