The real argument against aristocracy is that it always means the rule of the ignorant. For the most dangerous of all forms of ignorance is ignorance of work.

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.

The real pleasure-seeking is the combination of luxury and austerity in such a way that the luxury can really be felt.

Nothing is certain by uncertainty.

When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.

The first two facts which a healthy boy or girl feels about sex are these: first that it is beautiful and then that it is dangerous.