Politicians get their power too late, and I think that he has inherited an impossible situation in which he is ill-equipped to deal.

Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.

The truth is that a lost empire, lost power and lost wealth provide perfect circumstances for living happily and contentedly in our enchanted island.

Travel, of course, narrows the mind.

Marx and Freud are the two great destroyers of Christian civilization, the first replacing the gospel of love by the gospel of hate, the other undermining the essential concept of human responsibility.

The most terrible thing about materialism, even more terrible than its proneness to violence, is its boredom, from which sex alcohol, drugs, all devices for putting out the accusing light of reason and suppressing the unrealizable aspirations of love, offer a prospect of deliverance.

The great advantage of the sort of education I had was precisely that it made practically no mark upon those subjected to it.