Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.

There are two ways of dealing with nonsense in this world. One way is to put nonsense in the right place; as when people put nonsense into nursery rhymes. The other is to put nonsense in the wrong place; as when they put it into educational addresses, psychological criticisms, and complaints against nursery rhymes or other normal amusements of mankind.

But pure wit is akin to Puritanism; to the perfect and painful consciousness of the final fact in the universe. Very briefly, the man who sees the consistency in things is a wit - and a Calvinist. The man who sees the inconsistency in things is a humorist - and a Catholic.

For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity; the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the Calvinist.

There are no new lies, no new heresies. Man is simply not that creative.

A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

In real life the people who are most bigoted are the people who have no convictions at all.