When cats sat staring into the fire they were thinking out problems.
Heroics that don’t come off are the very essence of burlesque.
We cannot really look at the movement of the Spirit, just because It is the Power by which we do the looking.
But you see, I can believe a thing without understanding it. It’s all a matter of training.
To foment grievance and to set men at variance is the trade by which agitators thrive and journalists make money.
And heresy is, as I have tried to show, largely the expression of opinion of the untutored average man, trying to grapple with the problems of the universe at the point where they begin to interfere with his daily life and thought.
Very dangerous things, theories.
Plain lies are dangerous.
While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since the world is made to that mingled pattern.
No, no, there must be a limit to the baseness even of publishers.
I’m getting very old and my bones ache. My sins are deserting me, and if I could only have my time over again I’d take care to commit more of them.
The Devil is a spiritual lunatic, but, like many lunatics, he is extremely plausible and cunning.
To know one’s own limitations is the hallmark of competence.
Well-bred English people never have imagination...
Variety, individuality, peculiarity, eccentricity and indeed crankiness are agreeable to the British mind; they make life more interesting.
Forgiveness is the one unpardonable sin.
There’s ways and ways of dyin’. Some is took, and some takes French leave, and others is ’elped out of life...
There is one vast human experience that confronts us so formidably that we cannot pretend to overlook it. There is no solution to death. There is no means whatever whereby you or I, by taking thought, can solve this difficulty in such a manner that it no longer exists.
Man is never truly himself except when he is actively creating something.
There is, in fact, a paradox about working to serve the community, and it is this: that to aim directly at serving the community is to falsify the work; the only way to serve the community is to forget the community and serve the work.