With every step of our lives we enter into the middle of some story which we are certain to misunderstand. - G. K. Chesterton

We have passed the age of the demagogue, the man who has little to say and says it loud. We have come to the age of the mystagogue or don, the man who has nothing to say, but says it softly and impressively in an indistinct whisper.

Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.

He has come to the most dreadful conclusion a literary man can come to, the conclusion that the ordinary view is the right one. It is only the last and wildest kind of courage that can stand on a tower before ten thousand people and tell them that twice two is four.