Boys like romantic tales; but babies like realistic tales-because they find them romantic.

The Party System was founded on one national notion of fair play. It was the notion that folly and futility should be fairly divided between both sides.

The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.

For religion all men are equal, as all pennies are equal, because the only value of any of them is that they bear the image of the king.

You never know the best about men until you know the worst about them.

We must be clear about what we want to paint. This adds a further principle to our previous list of principles. We have said we must be fond of this world, even in order to change it.

Any man who preaches real love is bound to beget hate. It is as true of democratic fraternity as a divine love; sham love ends in compromise and common philosophy; but real love has always ended in bloodshed.