Teach To The Young, Men's Enduring Truths,

People Who Make History Know Nothing About History. You Can See That In The Sort Of History They Make.

Forms Of Expression Always Appear Turgid To Those Who Do Not Share The Emotions They Represent.

For Scotland Has A Double Dose Of The Poison Called Heredity; The Sense Of Blood In The Aristocrat, The Sense Of Doom In The Calvinist.

No Man Can Break Any Of The Ten Commandments. He Can Only Break Himself Against Them.

I Never Said A Word Against Eminent Men Of Science. What I Complain Of Is A Vague Popular Philosophy Which Supposes Itself To Be Scientific When It Is Really Nothing But A Sort Of New Religion And An Uncommonly Nasty One. When People Talked About The Fall Of Man, They Knew They Were Talking About A Mystery, A Thing They Didn't Understand. Now They Talk About The Survival Of The Fittest: They Think They Do Understand It, Whereas They Have Not Merely No Notion, They Have An Elaborately False Notion Of What The Words Mean.