We cannot fling ourselves into the blank future; we can only call up images from the past. This being so, the important principle follows, that how many images we have largely depends on how much past we have.

In Catholicism, the pint, the pipe and the Cross can all fit together.

There is nothing so weak, for working purposes, as this enormous importance attached to immediate victory. There is nothing that fails like success.

It is one thing to describe an interview with a gorgon or a griffin, a creature who does not exist. It is another thing to discover that the rhinoceros does exist and then take pleasure in the fact that he looks as if he didn't.

There are a good many fools who call me a friend, and also a good many friends who call me a fool.

Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek.

What we call emancipation is always and of necessity simply the free choice of the soul between one set of limitations and another.