Before the Roman came to Rye or out to severn strode, / The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road.

Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

A nation is not going mad when it does extravagant things, so long as it does them in an extravagant spirit. But whenever we see things done wildly, but taken tamely, then the State is growing insane.

We are to regard existence as a raid or great adventure; it is to be judged, therefore, not by what calamities it encounters, but by what flag it follows and what high town it assaults. The most dangerous thing in the world is to be alive; one is always in danger of one's life. But anyone who shrinks from that is a traitor to the great scheme and experiment of being.

The man who lives in contact with what he believes to be a living Church is a man always expecting to meet Plato and Shakespeare tomorrow at breakfast. He is always expecting to see some truth that he has never seen before.

Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.

The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.