I might inform those humanitarians who have a nightmare of new and needless babies (for some humanitarians have that sort of horror of humanity) that if the recent decline in the birth-rate were continued for a certain time, it might end in there being no babies at all; which would console them very much.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

English experience indicates that when the two great political parties agree about something it is generally wrong.

Every sane man recognises that unlimited liberty is anarchy, or rather is nonentity. The civic idea of liberty is to give the citizen a province of liberty; a limitation within which a citizen is a king.

Why should ANYTHING go right; even observation and deduction? Why should not good logic be as misleading as bad logic? They are both movements in the brain of a bewildered ape?

I always like a dog so long as he isn't spelled backward.

It's not the world that's got so much worse but the news coverage that's got so much better.