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.

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.

There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven.

The Athenian democracy suffered much from that narrowness of patriotism which is the ruin of all nations.

Marriage isn't what it was. It's become a different thing because women have become human beings.

The Social Contract is nothing more or less than a vast conspiracy of human beings to lie to and humbug themselves for the general Good. Lies are the mortar that bind the savage individual man into the social masonry.