Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .

Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions.

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

A tragedy means always a mans struggle with that which is stronger than man.

A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been reversed. Nowadays the part of a man that a man does assert is exactly the part he ought not to assert - himself. The part he doubts is exactly the part he ought not to doubt - the Divine Reason.

By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.