We have not made cricket and football [soccer] professional because of any astonishing avarice or new vulgarity. We have made them professional because we would have them perfect. We have dedicated men to them as to some god of inhuman excellence. We care more for football than for the fun of playing football.

The Party System was founded on one national notion of fair play. It was the notion that folly and futility should be fairly divided between both sides.

For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.

Just at present you only see the tree by the light of the lamp. I wonder when you would ever see the lamp by the light of the tree.

Morality did not begin by one man saying to another, "I will not hit you if you do not hit me"; there is no trace of such a transaction. There IS a trace of both men having said, "We must not hit each other in the holy place.

When the chord of monotony is stretched to its tightest, it breaks with the sound of a song.

Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.