It is only the Mystic, the man who accepts the contradictions, who can laugh and walk easily through the world.

That the more a man looks at a thing, the less he can see it, and the more a man learns a thing the less he knows it.

As I have stated it, on its most extreme terms, it only asks them to suffer abnegations.

You smile in an expansive spirit. You feel that your soul has been broadened by the vision of incompetence conducted on so large a scale.

A man reading the Dickens novel wished that it might never end.

when men have a real explanation they explain it, eagerly and copiously and in common speech, as Huxley freely gave it when he thought he had it. When they have no explanation to offer, they give short dignified replies, disdainful of the ignorance of the multitude.

The modern parallel called up is comic, but the truth is that mediaeval actualities have a violence that does seem comic to our conventions. The Catholics of that age were driven by two dominant thoughts: the all–importance of penitence as an answer to sin, and the all–importance of vivid and evident external acts as a proof of penitence.

In a word, the divorce controversy is not really a controversy about divorce. It is a controversy about re–marriage; or rather about whether it is marriage at all.

Perhaps the most thoroughly brilliant and typical man of this decade is Mr. Bernard Shaw.