Sublime

But I said that I opened my intellect as I opened my mouth, in order to shut it again on something solid.

“That is what makes life at once so splendid and so strange. We are in the wrong world.

There is a very good case for those who really are concerned about purposes and problems, and who find that they are very falsely and crookedly presented in dramas and stories.

It is precisely those who have been conservative about the family who have been revolutionary about the state.

For religion all men are equal, as all pennies are equal, because the only value in any of them is that they bear the image of the King.

There are in life certain immortal moments, moments that have authority.

It always takes a considerable time to see the simple and central fact about anything.

Their achievement seemed all the more heroic and divine, because it seemed doubtful whether it was worth doing at all. There seemed to be something greater than mere accuracy in making such a mistake as London.

That the four or five things that it is most practically essential that a man should know, are all of them what people call paradoxes.