No child should be brought up to suppose that its food and clothes come down from heaven or are miraculously conjured from empty space by papa. Loathsome as we have made the idea of duty (like the idea of work) we must habituate children to a sense of repayable obligation to the community for what they consume and enjoy, and inculcate the repayment as a point of honor.

Golf is typical capitalist luncay.

If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.

Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.

What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn’t come every day.

There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle.

Although I cannot lay an egg, I am a very good judge of omelettes