No sceptical philosopher can ask any questions that may not equally be asked by a tired child on a hot afternoon.

If you attempt an actual argument with a modern paper of opposite politics, you will have no answer except slanging or silence.

True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.

Posting a letter and getting married [sic] are among the few things left that are entirely romantic; for to be entirely romantic, a thing must be irrevocable

Coincidences are spiritual puns.

Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.

Bowing down in blind credulity, as is my custom, before mere authority and the tradition of the elders, superstitiously swallowing a story I could not test at the time by experiment or private judgment, I am firmly of the opinion that I was born on the 29th of May, 1874, on Campden Hill, Kensington; and baptised according to the formularies of the Church of England in the little church of St. George opposite the large Waterworks Tower that dominated that ridge.