The modern world is a crowd of very rapid racing cars all brought to a standstill and stuck in a block of traffic.

Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer's day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented.

The most valuable book we can read, about countries we have visited, is that which recalls to us something that we did notice, but did not notice that we noticed.

For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers.

The eagle has no liberty; he only has loneliness.

The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle

If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.