I cannot think that espionage can be recommended as a technique for building an impressive civilization. It's a lout's game.

No great thing happens suddenly.

Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is.

The mind is its own enemy, that fights itself with the innumerable pliant and ineluctable arms of the octopus.

I believe if people are looking for the truth, the truth of the Christian religion will come out and meet them.

Most magazines have that look of being predestined to be left which one sees on the faces of the women whose troubles bring them to the Law Courts.

Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.