“Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs.”

“To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.”

“As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal.”

“To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.”

“You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men.”

“When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.”

“In the evening I came home and read about the Messina earthquake, and how the relief ships arrived, and the wretched survivors crowded down to the water's edge and tore each other like wild beasts ...”

“Perhaps this general degradation was the result of too much crowding, too little privacy, too much noise. You couldn't be decent if you weren't intelligent; you couldn't be intelligent if you could...”

“The intelligence of that creature known as a crowd is the square root of the number of people in it.”

“Whoever can survive the stress involved in every institutional/documentation process, etc in Nigeria can survive anywhere.”

“I tell you," said Augustine, "if there is anything that revealed with the strength of a divine law in our times, it is that the masses are to rise, and the under class becomes the upper one.”

“Religion is the opium of the masses.”