Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young. W.

In civilized communities men’s idiosyncrasies are mitigated by the necessity of conforming to certain rules of behaviour. Culture, is a mask that hides their faces.

In religion above all things the only thing of use is an objective truth. The only God that is of use is a being who is personal, supreme and good, and whose existence is as certain as that two and two make four.

In the conduct of life we make use of deliberation to justify ourselves in doing what we want to do.

It has amazed me that the most incongruous traits should exist in the same person and, for all that, yield a plausible harmony.

It has been said that good prose should resemble the conversation of a well-bred man.

It has been said that metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct.

It is a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it: if you utterly decline to make do with what you get, then somehow or other you are very likely to get what you want.

It is a psychological trait in human nature that interest is established in the persons whom the playwright introduces at the beginning of his play so firmly that if the interest is then switched off to other persons who enter upon the scene later, a sense of disappointment ensues.

It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late. W.