I am a journalist and have no earthly motives except curiosity and personal vanity.

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

...I will praise the English climate till I die—even if I die of the English climate. There is no weather so good as English weather. Nay, in a real sense there is no weather at all anywhere but in England. In France you have much sun and some rain; in Italy you have hot winds and cold winds; in Scotland and Ireland you have rain, either thick or thin; in America you have hells of heat and cold, and in the Tropics you have sunstrokes varied by thunderbolts. But all these you have on a broad and brutal scale, and you settle down into contentment or despair.

The Universe is the most extraordinary masterpiece ever constructed by nobody.

It is not only possible to say a great deal in praise of play; it is really possible to say the highest things in praise of it. It might reasonably be maintained that the true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

I am not fighting a hopeless fight. People who have fought in real fights don't, as a rule.

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.