Along this particular stretch of line no express had ever passed. All the trains--the few that there were--stopped at all the stations. Denis knew the names of those stations by heart. Bole, Tritton, Spavin Delawarr, Knipswich for Timpany, West Bowlby, and, finally, Camlet-on-the-Water.

Christianity accepted as given a metaphysical system derived from several already existing and mutually incompatible systems.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds.

The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.

But then people don't read literature in order to understand; they read it because they want to re-live the feelings and sensations which they found exciting in the past. Art can be a lot of things; but in actual practice, most of it is merely the mental equivalent of alcohol and cantharides.

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.