You've got that eternal idiotic idea that if anarchy came it would come from the poor. Why should it? The poor have been rebels, but they have never been anarchists; they have more interest than any one else in there being some decent government. The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes been objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all. Aristocrats were always anarchists, as you can see from the barons' wars.

It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible since.

The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.

In truth, there are only two kinds of people; those who accept dogma and know it, and those who accept dogma and don't know it.