When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.

I have myself a poetical enthusiasm for pigs, and the paradise of my fancy is one where pigs have wings. But it is only men, especially wise men, who discuss whether pigs can fly; we have no particular proof that pigs ever discuss it.

A citizen can hardly distinguish between a tax and a fine, except that the fine is generally much lighter.

A man who says that no patriot should attack the Boer War until it is over is not worth answering intelligently; he is saying that no good son should warn his mother off a cliff until she has fallen over it.

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.

Too much capitalism does not mean too many capitalists, but too few capitalists.

The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not say.