Over-civilization and barbarism are within an inch of each other. And a mark of both is the power of medicine-men.

All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

There should be a burnished tablet let into the ground on the spot where some courageous man first ate Stilton cheese, and survived.

The human race is always trying this dodge of making everything entirely easy; but the difficulty which it shifts off one thing it shifts to another.

Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer's day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented.

At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.

For religion all men are equal, as all pennies are equal, because the only value of any of them is that they bear the image of the king.