The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.

There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.

If a man does not talk to himself, it is because he is not worth talking to.

While once it was the rank and file that cheered with all the partisan passions at their heights, today it is the party leaders who are cheering themselves; and all by themselves. The mob that is their audience is in one vast universal trance, thinking about something else.

I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals.

Cleanliness is not next to godliness nowadays, for cleanliness is made an essential and godliness is regarded as an offence.

By experts in poverty I do not mean sociologists, but poor men.