Faith means believing the unbelievable.

The full potentialities of human fury cannot be reached until a friend of both parties tactfully intervenes.

[Fairy tales] make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.

All the controversialists who have become conscious of the real issue are already saying of our ideal exactly what used to be said of the Socialists' ideal. They are saying that private property is too ideal not to be impossible. They are saying that private enterprise is too good to be true. They are saying that the idea of ordinary men owning ordinary possessions is against the laws of political economy and requires an alteration in human nature.

The prophet and the quack are alike admired for a generation, and admired for the wrong reasons.

The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.

Humour is meant, in a literal sense, to make game of man; that is, to dethrone him from his official dignity and hunt him like game.