The original quality in any man of imagination is imagery.

But since he stood for England And knew what England means, Unless you give him bacon You must not give him beans.

A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man.

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.

Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these?

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church