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.

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

People that insist upon drinking and driving, are putting the quart before the hearse.

If the world becomes pagan and perishes, the last man left alive would do well to quote the Iliad and die.

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

Modern nature-worship is all upside down. Trees and fields ought to be the ordinary things; terraces and temples ought to be extraordinary. I am on the side of the man who lives in the country and wants to go to London.

Each generation is converted by the saint who contradicts it most.