There are scores of thousands of human insects who are ready at a moment's notice to reveal the Will of God on every possible subject

Whenever an obviously well founded statement is made in England by a person specially well acquainted with the facts, that unlucky person is instantly and frantically contradicted by all the people who obviously know nothing about it.

If you say that God is good, great, blessed, wise or any such thing, the starting point is this : God is.

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is that conventionality saves so much time and thought and trouble and social friction of one sort or another that it leaves them much more leisure time for freedom than unconventionality does.

Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.

Man's inhumanity to man is only surpassed by his cruelty to animals