The State's your mother, your father, the totality of your interests. No discipline can be too severe for the man that denies thatby word or deed.

It's against reason," said Filby. "What reason?" said the Time Traveller.

We live in a world of unused and misapplied knowledge and skill.

...instead of offering me a Garibaldi biscuit, she asked me with that faint lisp of hers, to 'have some squashed flies, George'.

We will peck them to death to-morrow, my dear.

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life.

The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his gifts in such a calling.