Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.

Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats.

If ever peace is to be imposed on the world it will only be because a large number of men who could have taken part in the drill display by the Guards or Marines or at the Royal Tournament turn that strength and precision to the service of life.

The redemptive power of divine grace no longer seemed credible, nor very respectable in the arbitrary performance that was claimed for it.

Women know the damnation of charity because the habit of civilization has always been to throw them cheap alms rather than give them good wages.

It isn't only living people who die, it is great stretches of living, which can die even when the people who lived there still exist.

All our Western thought is founded on this repulsive pretence that pain is the proper price of any good thing.