What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read.

Somehow one can never manage to be an atheist.

The aesthete aims at harmony rather than beauty. If his hair does not match the mauve sunset against which he is standing, he hurriedly dyes his hair another shade of mauve. If his wife does not go with the wall-paper, he gets a divorce.

The determining bulk of Scotch people had heard of golf ever since they had heard of God and often considered the two as of equal importance.

Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.

Many clever men like you have trusted to civilization. Many clever Babylonians, many clever Egyptians, many clever men at the end of Rome. Can you tell me, in a world that is flagrant with the failures of civilisation, what there is particularly immortal about yours?

There are two kinds of rebellion. The first is one in which the slave demands something that the tyrant has got. The second is one in which he demands something that the tyrant has not got.