'As you have made your bed, so you must lie on it'; which again is simply a lie. If I have made my bed uncomfortable, please God I will make it again.

I do not feel any contempt for an atheist, who is often a man limited and constrained by his own logic to a very sad simplification.

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

My attitude toward progress has passed from antagonism to boredom. I have long ceased to argue with people who prefer Thursday to Wednesday because it is Thursday.

Adventure is the champagne of life.

It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature.

THERE are no wise few; for in all men rages the folly of the Fall. Take your strongest, happiest, handsomest, best born, best bred, best instructed men on earth and give them special power for half an hour and because they are men they will begin to [perform] badly.