Nothing is certain by uncertainty.

Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites, by keeping them both, and keeping them both furious.

An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

I would look at the first chapter of any new novel as a final test of its merits. If there was a murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I read the story. If there was no murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I dismissed the story as tea-table twaddle, which it often really was.

When men cease to believe in God, they will believe in anything

No man must be superior to the things that are common to men.... Not only are we all in the same boat, but we are all seasick.

Before the gods that made the gods Had seen their sunrise pass, The White Horse of the White Horse Vale Was cut out of the grass.