He is only a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of the Conservative.

We do not want joy and anger to neutralize each other and produce a surly contentment; we want a fiercer delight and a fiercer discontent. We have to feel the universe at once as an ogre's castle, to be stormed, and yet as our own cottage, to which we can return to at evening.

It is a good sign in a nation when things are done badly. It shows that all the people are doing them. And it is bad sign in a nation when such things are done very well, for it shows that only a few experts and eccentrics are doing them, and that the nation is merely looking on.

The test of happiness is gratitude.

There is only one reason an intelligent person doesn't believe in miracles. He or she believes in materialism.

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.

If you convey to a woman that something ought to be done, there is always a dreadful danger that she will suddenly do it.