The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.

It is the root of all religion that a man knows that he is nothing in order to thank God that he is something.

Everyone seems to assume that the unscrupulous parts of journalism will be the frivolous or jocular parts. This is against all ethical experience. Jokes are generally honest. Complete solemnity is almost always dishonest. The writer of the snippet merely refers to a frivolous and fugitive fact in a frivolous and fugitive way. The writer of the leading article has to write about a fact he has known for 20 minutes as though he has studied it for 20 years.

In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own?