The pure modernist is merely a snob; he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion.

Before the Roman came to Rye or out to severn strode, / The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road.

There's a lot of difference between listening and hearing.

The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.

If the barricades went up in our streets and the poor became masters, I think the priests would escape, I fear the gentlemen would; but I believe the gutters would simply be running with the blood of philanthropists.

And all over the world, the old literature, the popular literature, is the same. It consists of very dignified sorrow and very undignified fun. Its sad tales are of broken hearts; its happy tales are of broken heads.

A modern man may disapprove of some of his sweeping reforms, and approve others; but finds it difficult not to admire even where he does not approve.