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

Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these?

Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.

A man must be orthodox upon most things, or he will never even have time to preach his own heresy.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

One can no more have a private religion than one can have a private sun or a private moon.