There are two ways of forming an opinion. One is the scientific method; the other, the scholastic. To the scientific mind, experimental proof is all-important, and theory is merely a convenience in description, to be junked when it no longer fits. To the academic mind, authority is everything, and facts are junked when they do not fit theory.

How you behave toward cats here below determines your status in Heaven.

...revolutions are not won by enlisting the masses. Revolution is a science for the few who are competent to practice it. It depends on correct organisation and above all, on communications.

The trouble with conspiracies is that they rot internally.

I'm always suspicious of disinterested interest.

Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by legislation.

The death rate is the same for us as for anybody ... one person, one death, sooner or later.