There is something to be said for every error; but, whatever may be said for it, the most important thing to be said about it is that it is erroneous.

Big Business and State Socialism are very much alike, especially Big Business.

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

The last few decades have been marked by a special cultivation of the romance of the future. We seem to have made up our minds to misunderstand what has happened; and we turn, with a sort of relief, to stating what will happen-which is apparently much easier...The modern mind is forced towards the future by a certain sense of fatigue, not unmixed with terror, with which it regards the past.

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

My life is passed in making bad jokes and seeing them turn into true prophecies.

The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.