He had fallen into the error of all liberals: the belief that men are prepared to reform themselves, that good will attracts good will, that truth has leavening virtue of its own.

And I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people.

If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.

Well I travelled quite a lot in the east, and one of the things that impressed me greatly was the buddhist notion of the continuity of things, the wheel of life which is what we're talking about, the ever turning wheel.

He had fallen into the error of all liberals: the belief that men are prepared to reform themselves, that good will attracts good will, that truth has leavening virtue of its own.

You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection.

All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members.