The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable one. The trouble is that it is nearly reasonable, but not quite.

Jokes are generally honest. Complete solemnity is always dishonest.

The true object of human life is play.

It is the decisive people who have become civilised; it is the indecisive, otherwise called the higher sceptics, or the idealistic doubters, who have remained barbarians.

Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.

The Reformer is always right about what's wrong. However, he's often wrong about what is right.

Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.