Love is not blind; that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound; and the more it is bound the less it is blind.

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity.

A faith is that which is able to survive a mood.

Though the academic authorities are actually proud of conducting everything by means of Examinations, they seldom indulge in what religious people used to descibe as Self-Examination. The consequence is that the modern State has educated its citizens in a series of ephemeral fads.

Savages and modern artists are alike strangely driven to create something uglier than themselves. but the artists find it harder.

Only friendliness produces friendship. And we must look far deeper into the soul of man for the thing that produces friendliness.