There should be a burnished tablet let into the ground on the spot where some courageous man first ate Stilton cheese, and survived.

When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.

For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.

The repetition in Nature may not be a mere recurrence; it may be a theatrical encore.

A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.

To do Mohammed justice, his main attack was against the idolatries of Asia. Only he thought, just as the Arians did and just as the Unitarians do, that he could attack them better with a greater approximation to plain theism. What distinguishes his heresy from anything like an Arian or Albigensian heresy is that, as it sprang up on the borders of Christendom, it could spread outwards to a barbaric world.

I don't deny," he said, "that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.