Just the other day in the Underground I enjoyed the pleasure of offering my seat to three ladies.

I would rather a boy learnt in the roughest school the courage to hit a politician, or gained in the hardest school the learning to refute him - rather than that he should gain in the most enlightened school the cunning to copy him.

Democracy is like blowing your nose. You may not do it well, but it's something you ought to do yourself.

As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly.

The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.

The great ideals of the past failed not by being outlived (which must mean over-lived), but by not being lived enough. Mankind has not passed through the Middle Ages. Rather mankind has retreated from the Middle Ages in reaction and rout. The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.

Tea, although an OrientalIs a gentleman at least;Cocoa is a cad and coward,Cocoa is a vulgar beast.