It is not the sale of my soul that troubles me: I have sold it too often to care about that. I have sold it for a professorship. I have sold it for an income. [...] What is all human conduct but the daily and hourly sale of our souls for trifles?

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break a nation's nationality it will think of nothing else but …

Undershaft: My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.

Je ameroie mieus que uns Escoz venist d'Escosse et gouvernast le peuple du royaume bien et loyaument, que que tu le gouvernasses mal apertement.

In sober state, Through the sequestered vale of rural life, The venerable patriarch guileless held The tenor of his way.

A person who knows all that is good and all that is true---as much as can be known---but does not resist evils, knows nothing.