It's not that we don't have enough scoundrels to curse; it's that we don't have enough good men to curse them.

One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.

So far as a man may be proud of a religion rooted in humility, I am very proud of my religion; I am especially proud of those parts of it that are most commonly called superstition. I am proud of being fettered by antiquated dogmas and enslaved by dead creeds (as my journalistic friends repeat with so much pertinacity), for I know very well that it is the heretical creeds that are dead, and that it is only the reasonable dogma that lives long enough to be called antiquated.

Grey is a colour that always seems on the eve of changing to some other colour.

The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.

He is only a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of the Conservative.

No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.