We are like the penny, because we have the image of the king stamped on us, the divine king.

Why be something to everybody when you can be everything to somebody?

These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.

It was not the house that grew dull, but I that grew dull in it. My wife was better than all women, and yet I could not feel it.

Business, especially big business, is now organized like an army. It is, as some would say, a sort of mild militarism without bloodshed; as I say, a militarism without the military virtues.

There should be a burnished tablet let into the ground on the spot where some courageous man first ate Stilton cheese, and survived.

It is the chief value of legend to mix up the centuries while preserving the sentiment.