In a world where everything is ridiculous, nothing can be ridiculed. You cannot unmask a mask.

The simple sense of wonder at the shapes of things, and at their exuberant independence of our intellectual standards and our trivial definitions, is the basis of spirituality.

Half a truth is better than no politics.

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

Saint George he was for England, And before he killed the dragon he drank a pint of English ale out of an English flagon.

Spring never is spring unless it comes too soon.

Men spoke much in my boyhood about restricted or ruined men of genius: and it was common to say that many a man was a Great Might-Have-Been. To me it's a more solid and startling fact that any man in the street is a Great Might-Not-Have-Been.