It is true that there is a thing crudely called charity, which means charity to the deserving poor; but charity to the deserving is not charity at all, but justice. It is the undeserving who require it, and the ideal either does not exist at all, or exists wholly for them.

Political Economy means that everybody except politicians must be economical.

It is a good sign in a nation when things are done badly. It shows that all the people are doing them. And it is bad sign in a nation when such things are done very well, for it shows that only a few experts and eccentrics are doing them, and that the nation is merely looking on.

There are two ways of getting home; and one of them is to stay there.

When a man ceases to believe in god, he does not believe in nothing. He believes in everything.

The Christian is quite free to believe that there is a considerable amount of settled order and inevitable development in the universe. But the materialist is not allowed to admit into his spotless machine the slightest speck of spiritualism or miracle.

It was not the house that grew dull, but I that grew dull in it. My wife was better than all women, and yet I could not feel it.