I've searched all the parks in all the cities - and found no statues of Committees.

Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her.

Just the other day in the Underground I enjoyed the pleasure of offering my seat to three ladies.

An event is not any more intrinsically intelligible or unintelligible because of the pace at which it moves. For a man who does not believe in a miracle, a slow miracle would be just as incredible as a swift one. The Greek witch may have turned sailors to swine with a stroke of the wand. But to see a naval gentleman of our acquaintance looking a little more like a pig every day, till he ended with four trotters and a curly tail, would not be any more soothing. It might be rather more creepy and uncanny.

It is the root of all religion that a man knows that he is nothing in order to thank God that he is something.

We must be clear about what we want to paint. This adds a further principle to our previous list of principles. We have said we must be fond of this world, even in order to change it.

There is no way in which a man can earn a star or deserve a sunset.