Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government.

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

The noble temptation to see too much in everything.

Before the Roman came to Rye or out to severn strode, / The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road.

Free verse'? You may as well call sleeping in a ditch 'free architecture'.

Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest. But what does he do if there is no forest? He grows a forest to hide it in.

The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.