In the main, there are two sorts of books: those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.

The most common of all follies is to believe in the palpably untrue.

Of all forms of visible otherworldliness, it seems to me, the Gothic is at once the most logical and the most beautiful. It reaches up magnificently-and a good half of it is palpably useless.

The true bureaucrat is a man of really remarkable talents. He writes a kind of English that is unknown elsewhere in the world, and an almost infinite capacity for forming complicated and unworkable rules.

The formula of the argument is simple and familiar: to dispose of a problem all that is necessary is to deny that it exists.

Osteopath--One who argues that all human ills are caused by the pressure of hard bone upon soft tissue. The proof of his theory isto be found in the heads of those who believe it.

In the long run all battles are lost, and so are all wars.