The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

Saint George he was for England, And before he killed the dragon he drank a pint of English ale out of an English flagon.

The modern world has far too little understanding of the art of keeping young. Its notion of progress has been to pile one thing on top of another, without caring if each thing was crushed in turn. People forgot that the human soul can enjoy a thing most when there is time to think about it and be thankful for it. And by crowding things together they lost the sense of surprise; and surprise is the secret of joy.

Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

A fad or heresy is the exaltation of something which even if true, is secondary or temporary in its nature against those things which are essential and eternal, those things which always prove themselves true in the long run. In short, it is the setting up of the mood against the mind.