Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.

All my authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

We are always giving foreign names to very native things. If there is a thing that reeks of the glorious tradition of the old English tavern, it is toasted cheese. But for some wild reason we call it Welsh rarebit. I believe that what we call Irish stew might more properly be called English stew, and that it is not particularly familiar in Ireland.

Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.

Wait and see whether the religion of the Servile State is not in every case what I say: the encouragement of small virtues supporting capitalism, the discouragement of the huge virtues that defy it.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Coincidences are spiritual puns.