If we want to give poor people soap we must set out deliberately to give them luxuries. If we will not make them rich enough to be clean, then empathically we must do what we did with the saints. We must reverence them for being dirty.

But there is in everything a reasonable division of labour. I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce me to read it.

ONCE remove the old arena of theological quarrels, and you will throw open the whole world to the most horrible, the most hopeless, the most endless, the most truly interminable quarrels; the untheological quarrels.

The ignorant pronounce it Frood To cavil or applaud The well-informed pronounce it Froyd But I pronounce it Fraud.

It is only great men who take up a great space by not being there.

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

I believe in preaching to the converted; for I have generally found that the converted do not understand their own religion.