We do not want joy and anger to neutralize each other and produce a surly contentment; we want a fiercer delight and a fiercer discontent. We have to feel the universe at once as an ogre's castle, to be stormed, and yet as our own cottage, to which we can return to at evening.

When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.

The academic mind reflects infinity, and is full of light by the simple process of being shallow and standing still.

Modern broad-mindedness benefits the rich; and benefits nobody else.

Democracy is like blowing your nose. You may not do it well, but it's something you ought to do yourself.

He is only a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of the Conservative.

The one created thing which we cannot look at is the one thing in the light of which we look at everything.