Most people are boring and stupid.
Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority.
A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.
The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.
More than half of modern culture depends upon what one shouldn't read.
The real weakness of England lies, not in incomplete armaments or unfortified coasts, not in the poverty that creeps through sunless lanes, or the drunkenness that brawls in loathsome courts, but simply in the fact that her ideals are emotional and not intellectual.