I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.

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.

Heroics that don't come off are the very essence of burlesque.

What? Sunday morning in an English family and no sausages? God bless my soul, what's the world coming to, eh?

The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.

The Christian faith is the most exciting drama that ever staggered the imagination of man-and the dogma is the drama ... The plot pivots upon a single character, and the whole action is the answer to a single central problem: 'What think ye of Christ?'... He was emphatically not a dull m an in his human lifetime, and if he was God, there can be nothing dull about God either.

Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.