Price is a crazy and incalculable thing, while Value is an intrinsic and indestructible thing.

All we know of the Missing Link is that he is missing - and he won't be missed either.

The modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated from each other and are wandering alone. Thus some scientists care for truth; and their truth is pitiless. Thus some humanitarians only care for pity; and their pity (I am sorry to say) is often untruthful.

The books that influence the world are those that it has not read.

Sometimes he even embarrassed the company by phrases suggesting that there was some difference between a Liberal and a Conservative.

Such professions as the soldier and the lawyer ... give ample opportunity for crimes but not much for mere illusions. ... If you have lost a battle you cannot believe you have won it; if your client is hanged you cannot pretend that you have gotten him off.

The sort of man who admires Italian art while despising Italian religion is a tourist and a cad.