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

If an editor can only make people angry enough, they will write half his newspaper for him for nothing.

You've got that eternal idiotic idea that if anarchy came it would come from the poor. Why should it? The poor have been rebels, but they have never been anarchists; they have more interest than any one else in there being some decent government. The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes been objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all. Aristocrats were always anarchists, as you can see from the barons' wars.

Every one on the earth should believe that he has something to give to the world which cannot otherwise be given.

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

The modern world is filled with men who hold dogmas so strongly that they do not even know they are dogmas.

Classic literature is still something that hangs in the air like a song.