The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.

Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.

If there is one fact we really can prove, from the history that we really do know, it is that despotism can be a development, often a late development and very often indeed the end of societies that have been highly democratic. A despotism may almost be defined as a tired democracy. As fatigue falls on a community, the citizens are less inclined for that eternal vigilance which has truly been called the price of liberty; and they prefer to arm only one single sentinel to watch the city while they sleep.

The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.

Thoughts on the Merits of Work The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.

Man is not merely an evolution but rather a revolution.

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.