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.

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.

Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds.

Of course, there is some truth in advertising. There's yeast in bread, but you can't make bread with yeast alone. Truth in advertising is like leaven, which a woman hid in three measures of meal. It provides a suitable quantity of gas, with which to blow out a mass of crude misrepresentation into a form that the public can swallow.

I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.

We shall know what things are of overmastering importance when they have overmastered us.

I have never regretted Paradise Lost since I discovered that it contained no eggs-and-bacon.