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

Islam was something like a Christian heresy. The early heresies had been full of mad reversals and evasions of the Incarnation, rescuing their Jesus from the reality of his body even at the expense of the sincerity of his soul.

They said that I should lose my ideals and begin to believe in the methods of practical politicians. Now, I have not lost my ideals in the least; my faith in fundamentals is exactly what it always was. What I have lost is my childlike faith in practical politics.

The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.

Tea, although an OrientalIs a gentleman at least;Cocoa is a cad and coward,Cocoa is a vulgar beast.

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.

I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.