You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world.

Business, especially big business, is now organized like an army. It is, as some would say, a sort of mild militarism without bloodshed; as I say, a militarism without the military virtues.

And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine, "I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine."

The simple sense of wonder at the shapes of things, and at their exuberant independence of our intellectual standards and our trivial definitions, is the basis of spirituality.

The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God's paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle - and not lose it.

I defy anybody to say what are the rights of a citizen, if they do not include the control of his own diet in relation to his own health.

I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.