It is much easier to write a good Times leading article than a good joke in Punch.

No man must be superior to the things that are common to men.... Not only are we all in the same boat, but we are all seasick.

Earth will grow worse till men redeem it, And wars more evil, ere all wars cease.

The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.

It has been left to the last Christians, or rather to the first Christians fully committed to blaspheming and denying Christianity, to invent a new kind of worship of Sex, which is not even a worship of Life. It has been left to the very latest Modernists to proclaim an erotic religion which at once exalts lust and forbids fertility . . . The new priests abolish the fatherhood and keep the feast - to themselves.

What are we going to do?" asked the Professor. "At this moment," said Syme, with a scientific detachment, "I think we are going to smash into a lamppost.

Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.