Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

If an editor can only make people angry enough, they will write half his newspaper for him for nothing.

He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it.

It is much easier to write a good Times leading article than a good joke in Punch.

I believe what really happens in history is this: the old man is always wrong; and the young people are always wrong about what is wrong with him. The practical form it takes is this: that, while the old man may stand by some stupid custom, the young man always attacks it with some theory that turns out to be equally stupid.

Gratitude, being nearly the greatest of human duties, is also nearly the most difficult.

Meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain. Meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure.