Mysticism keeps mankind sane. As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity.

We actually love ourselves more than we love joy.

The thing that cannot be defined is the first thing; the primary fact.

Is there anyone... who will maintain that the Party System could have been created by people particularly fond of truth?

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

If you spell a word wrong you have some temptation to think it wrong.

If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.