Golf is the only game where the worst player gets the best of it. He obtains more out of it as regards both exercise and enjoyment, for the good player gets worried over the slightest mistake, whereas the poor player makes too many mistakes to worry about them.

A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.

Doctinaires are the vultures of principle. They feed upon principle after it is dead.

God has chosen little nations as the vessels by which He carries His choicest wines to the lips of humanity to rejoice their hearts, to exalt their vision, to strengthen their faith, and if we had stood by when two little nations [Belgium and Serbia] were being crushed and broken by the brutal hands of barbarians, our shame would have rung down the everlasting ages.

If the people really knew [the truth] the war would be stopped tomorrow. But of course they don't know and can't know.

The conventional heaven with its angels perpetually singing etc nearly drove me mad in my youth and made me an atheist for ten years. My opinion is that we shall be reincarnated.

The world is becoming like a lunatic asylum run by lunatics.