But since he stood for England And knew what England means, Unless you give him bacon You must not give him beans.

Each generation is converted by the saint who contradicts it most.

But those dealing in the actual manufacture of mind are dealing in a very explosive material. The material is not merely the clay of which man is master, but the truths or semblances of truth which have a certain mastery over man. The material is explosive because it must be taken seriously. The men writing books really are throwing bombs.

Bowing down in blind credulity, as is my custom, before mere authority and the tradition of the elders, superstitiously swallowing a story I could not test at the time by experiment or private judgment, I am firmly of the opinion that I was born on the 29th of May, 1874, on Campden Hill, Kensington; and baptised according to the formularies of the Church of England in the little church of St. George opposite the large Waterworks Tower that dominated that ridge.

How much happier you would be, how much more of you there would be, if the hammer of a higher God could smash your small cosmos.

People decided that it was impossible to achieve any of the good of Socialism, but they comforted themselves by achieving all the bad.

All that we call spirit and art and ecstacy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forgot.