It is very good for a man to talk about what he does not understand; as long as he understands that he does not understand it.

In the main, and from the beginning of time, mysticism has kept men sane. The thing that has driven them mad was logic.

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

Even the moon is only poetical because there is a man in the moon.

It is the chief value of legend to mix up the centuries while preserving the sentiment.

He had found the thing which the modern people call Impressionism, which is another name for that final scepticism which can find no floor to the universe.

Sticking to one woman is a small price to pay for so much as having seen one woman.