All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.

I said to Heart, "How goes it?" Heart replied: "Right as a Ribstone Pippin!" But it lied.

When you have lost your inns, drown your empty selves, for you will have lost the last of England.

I forget the name of the place; I forget the name of the girl; but the wine was Chambertin.

But if I be asked what sign we may look for to show that the advance of the faith is at hand I would answer by a word the modern world has forgotten: Persecution. When that shall once more be at work it will be morning.

It has been discovered that with a dull urban population, all formed under a mechanical system of State education, a suggestion or command, however senseless and unreasoned, will be obeyed if it be sufficiently repeated.

For every time she shouted "Fire!" They only answered "Little liar!" And therefore when her aunt returned, Matilda, and the house, were burned.