Bah! The thing is not a nose at all, but a bit of primordial chaos clapped on to my face.

I am for world-control of production and of trade and transport, for a world coinage, and the confederation of mankind. I am for the super-State.

The serious people who took him seriously never felt quite sure of his deportment; they were somehow aware that trusting their reputations for judgment with him was like furnishing a nursery with egg-shell china.

Science has toiled too long forging weapons for fools to use. It is time she held her hand.

By this time I was no longer very much terrified or very miserable. I had, as it were, passed the limit of terror and despair. I felt now that my life was practically lost, and that persuasion made me capable of daring anything

If after all my Atheology turns out wrong and your Theology right I feel I shall always be able to pass into Heaven (if I want to) as a friend of G.K.C.'s. Bless you.

Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.