Modern men are afraid of the past. It is a record of human achievement, but its other face is human defeat.

The common interests very largely elude public opinion entirely, and can be managed only by a specialised class.

Before you can begin to think about politics at all, you have to abandon the notion that there is a war between good men and bad men.

There is nothing so bad but it can masquerade as moral.

Football strategy does not originate in a scrimmage: it is useless to expect solutions in a political campaign.

We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world - introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably - that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

Every fairly intelligent person is aware that the price of respectability is a muffled soul bent on the trivial and the mediocre.