Sometimes he even embarrassed the company by phrases suggesting that there was some difference between a Liberal and a Conservative.

There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

Whether a man chooses to tell the truth in long sentences or short jokes is a problem analogous to whether he chooses to tell the truth in French or in German.

Tolerance is the virtue of those who don't believe anything.

It was the mystical dogma of Bentham and Adam Smith and the rest, that some of the worst of human passions would turn out to be all for the best. It was the mysterious doctrine that selfishness would do the work of unselfishness.

Puritanism was an honourable mood; it was a noble fad. In other words, it was a highly creditable mistake.