The prophet and the quack are alike admired for a generation, and admired for the wrong reasons.
But since he stood for England And knew what England means, Unless you give him bacon You must not give him beans.
If the world grows to worldly, it can be rebuked by the Church; but if the Church grows to worldly, it cannot be adequately rebuked for worldlyness by the world.
One can sometimes do good by being the right person in the wrong place.
The one stream of poetry which is continually flowing is slang.
A nation that has nothing but its amusements will not be amused for long.
Gratitude, being nearly the greatest of human duties, is also nearly the most difficult.
Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
English experience indicates that when the two great political parties agree about something it is generally wrong.
It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans.
I believe in preaching to the converted; for I have generally found that the converted do not understand their own religion.
The reason that angels fly is that they take themselves so lightly.
Physical science is like simple addition: it is either infallible or it is false.
If the apple hit Newton’s nose, Newton’s nose hit the apple.
The people has no definite disbelief in the temples of theology. The people has a very fiery and practical disbelief in the temples of physical science.
The artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs. It is a disease which arises from men no having sufficient power of expression to utter and get rid of the element of art in their being.
I represent the jolly mass of mankind. I am the happy and reckless Christian.
It is a mathematical fact that if a line be not perfectly directed towards a point, it will actually go further away from it as it comes nearer to it.
Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
Humility is the luxurious art of reducing ourselves to a point, not to a small thing or a large one, but to a thing with no size at all, so that to it all the cosmic things are what they really are-of immeasurable stature.