Just at present you only see the tree by the light of the lamp. I wonder when you would ever see the lamp by the light of the tree.

All real democracy is an attempt like that of a jolly hostess to bring the shy people out.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.

The test of happiness is gratitude.

I have formed a very clear conception of patriotism. I have generally found it thrust into the foreground by some fellow who has something to hide in the background. I have seen a great deal of patriotism; and I have generally found it the last refuge of the scoundrel.

The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it - because it is a fact.