The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.

When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.

Comforts that were rare among our forefathers are now multiplied in factories and handed out wholesale; and indeed, nobody nowadays, so long as he is content to go without air, space, quiet, decency and good manners, need be without anything whatever that he wants; or at least a reasonably cheap imitation of it.

Humour is meant, in a literal sense, to make game of man; that is, to dethrone him from his official dignity and hunt him like game.

The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.

Faith is always at a disadvantage; it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors.

Like every book I never wrote, it is by far the best book I have ever written.