all conscious thought is a process in time; so that to think consciously about Time is like trying to use a foot-rule to measure its own length.

Variety, individuality, peculiarity, eccentricity and indeed crankiness are agreeable to the British mind; they make life more interesting.

A passage is not plain English - still less is it good English - if we are obliged to read it twice to find out what it means.

Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him.

But if it ever occurs to people to value the honor of the mind equally with the honor of the body, we shall get a social revolution of a quite unparalleled sort — and very different from the kind that is being made at the moment.

Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.

The only Christian work is good work, well done