It is one thing to describe an interview with a gorgon or a griffin, a creature who does not exist. It is another thing to discover that the rhinoceros does exist and then take pleasure in the fact that he looks as if he didn't.

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

There is no obligation on us to be richer, or busier, or more efficient, or more productive, or more progressive, or any way worldlier or wealthier, if it does not make us happier.

For religion all men are equal, as all pennies are equal, because the only value of any of them is that they bear the image of the king.

Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.

The old restriction meant that only the orthodox were allowed to discuss religion. Modern liberty means that nobody is allowed to discuss it. Good taste, the last and vilest of human superstitions, has succeeded in silencing us where all the rest have failed.

A good man's work is effected by doing what he does, a woman's by being what she is.