I always like a dog so long as he isn't spelled backward.

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

Teach to the young, men's enduring truths, and let the learned amuse themselves with their passing errors.

Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.

Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government.

A fairly clear line separated advertisement from art. ... The first effect of the triumph of the capitalist (if we allow him to triumph) will be that that line of demarcation will entirely disappear. There will be no art that might not just as well be advertisement.

The modern world has far too little understanding of the art of keeping young. Its notion of progress has been to pile one thing on top of another, without caring if each thing was crushed in turn. People forgot that the human soul can enjoy a thing most when there is time to think about it and be thankful for it. And by crowding things together they lost the sense of surprise; and surprise is the secret of joy.