It is often a mistake to combine two pleasures, because pleasures, like pains, can act as counter-irri-tants to each other.

Faith means believing the unbelievable.

Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.

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

It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature.

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.

(Tradition) is the democracy of the dead.