Political Economy means that everybody except politicians must be economical.

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.

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.

Mr. Blatchford says that there was not a Fall but a gradual rise. But the very word "rise" implies that you know toward what you are rising. Unless there is a standard you cannot tell whether you are rising or falling. But the main point is that the Fall like every other large path of Christianity is embodied in the common language talked on the top of an omnibus. Anybody might say, "Very few men are really Manly." Nobody would say, "Very few whales are really whaley."

Romance is the combination of something that is strange with something that is secure.

It is the first law of practical courage. To be in the weakest camp is to be in the strongest school.

The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.