You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes -- our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking around.

There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

The world will never starve for want of wonders, but for want of wonder.

The mere brute pleasure of reading --the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it --because it is a fact.

It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.