An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie.

Everywhere in the world there are ignorance and prejudice, but the greatest complex of these, with the most extensive prestige and the most intimate entanglement with traditional institutions, is the Roman Catholic Church.

The too perfect security of the Upper-worlders had led them to a slow movement of degeneration, a general dwindling in size, strength, and intelligence.

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

Good books are the warehouses of ideas.

The third peculiarity of aerial warfare was that it was at once enormously destructive and entirely indecisive.

The past is but the past of a beginning.