A man cannot think himself out of mental evil; for it is actually the organ of thought that has become diseased, ungovernable, and, as it were, independent. He can only be saved by will or faith. The...
Journalism largely consists in saying "Lord Jones is dead" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive.
The pessimists believe that the cosmos is a clock that is running down; the progressives believe it is a clock that they themselves are winding up. But I happen to believe that the world is what we ch...
Strike a glass and it will not endure an instant. Simply do not strike it and it will endure a thousand years.
Tradition is only democracy extended through time.
A man is not really convinced of a philosophic theory when he finds that something proves it. He is only really convinced when he finds that everything proves it.
[...] central Christian theology (sufficiently summarized in the Apostles' Creed) is the best root of energy and sound ethics.
While most science moves in a sort of curve, being constantly corrected by new evidence, this science flies off into space in a straight line uncorrected by anything. But the habit of forming conclusi...
When some English moralists write about the importance of having character, they appear to mean only the importance of having a dull character.
To hurry through one’s leisure is the most unbusiness-like of actions.
To him, even the momentary was momentous.
To each man one soul only is given; to each soul only is given a little power - the power at some moments to outgrow and swallow up the stars.
To be in the weakest camp is to be in the strongest school. Nor can I imagine anything that would do humanity more good than the advent of a race of Supermen, for them to fight like dragons. If the Su...
To accept everything is an exercise, to understand everything a strain. The poet only desires exaltation and expansion, a world to stretch himself in. The poet only asks to get his head into the heave...
These men were conscious of the Fall, if they were conscious of nothing else; and the same is true of all heathen humanity. Those who have fallen may remember the fall, even when they forget the heigh...
There’d be a lot less scandal if people didn’t idealize sin and pose as sinners.
There was a short railway official travelling up to the terminus, three fairly short market-gardeners picked up two stations afterwards, one very short widow lady going up from a small Essex town, and...
There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person. Nothing is more keenly required than a defence of bores. When Byron divided humani...
There has appeared in our time a particular class of books and articles which I sincerely and solemnly think may be called the silliest ever known among men... these things are about nothing; they are...
The world was old and ended: but you and I were gay;Round us in antic order their crippled vices came—Lust that had lost its laughter, fear that had lost its shame.