Set me anything to do as a task, and it is inconceivable the desire I have to do something else.

All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of storytellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.

I fought linotype and montype for some time because it would not justify as well as handset could be made to do; but at last, as always happens, the machine outdid the hand, and got all the best types on it.

Decency is indecency's conspiracy of silence

Oh, come! That boot is on the other leg. Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened on the scorched corpses of animals, you might well ask me why I did that

Whenever I see the word Operation, especially Trifling Operation, I at once write off the patient as dead.

Patriotism is a word which always commemorates a robbery.