The Americans are the illegitimate children of the English.

The average schoolmaster is, and always must be, an ass.

War may make a fool of man, but it by no means degrades him; on the contrary, it tends to exalt him, and its net effects are much like those of motherhood on women.

The theory behind representative government is that superior men-or at least men not inferior to the average in ability and integrity-are chosen to manage the public business, and that they carry on this work with reasonable intelligence and honest. There is little support for that theory in known facts.

Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world

Science is unflinchingly deterministic, and it has begun to force its determinism into morals. On some shining tomorrow a psychoanalyst may be put into the box to prove that perjury is simply a compulsion neurosis, like beating time with the foot at a concert or counting the lampposts along the highway.

It is almost impossible for an Anglo-Saxon to write of sex without being dirty.