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

Now there is any amount of this nonsense cropping up among American cranks. Anybody may propose to establish coercive Eugenics; or enforce psychoanalysis that is, enforce confession without absolution.

There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning. An art school is a place where about three people work with feverish energy and everybody else idles to a degree that I should have conceived unattainable by human nature.

A good joke is the closest thing we have to divine revelation.

The full potentialities of human fury cannot be reached until a friend of both parties tactfully intervenes.

The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.

Altruists, with thin, weak voices, denounce Christ as an egoist. Egoists (with even thinner and weaker voices) denounce Him as an altruist.