The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.

Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

I believe in preaching to the converted; for I have generally found that the converted do not understand their own religion.

A third-class carriage is a community, while a first-class carriage is a place of wild hermits.

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

I tell you naught for your comfort, Yea, naught for your desire, Save that the sky grows darker yet And the sea rises higher.

While once it was the rank and file that cheered with all the partisan passions at their heights, today it is the party leaders who are cheering themselves; and all by themselves. The mob that is their audience is in one vast universal trance, thinking about something else.