Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice.

In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle.

The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers

Since in every European country between 1870 and 1914 there was a war party demanding armaments, an individualist party demanding ruthless competition, an imperialist party demanding a free hand over backward peoples, a socialist party demanding the conquest of power and a racialist party demanding internal purges against aliens - all of them, when appeals to greed and glory failed, invoked Spencer and Darwin, which was to say science incarnate.

Science is, in the best and strictest sense, glorious entertainment

Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap

You never step in the same river of thought twice, because neither you nor it are the same.