But there is in everything a reasonable division of labour. I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce me to read it.

Any one of the strange laws we suffer is a compromise between a fad and a vested interest.

The man who lives in contact with what he believes to be a living Church is a man always expecting to meet Plato and Shakespeare tomorrow at breakfast. He is always expecting to see some truth that he has never seen before.

...but out of the desert, from the dry places and the dreadful suns, come the cruel children of the lonely God; the real Unitarians who with scimitar in hand have laid waste the world. For it is not well for God to be alone.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect. Men do not quarrel about the meaning of sunsets; they never dispute that the hawthorn says the best and wittiest thing about the spring.

Life is indeed terribly complicated—to a man who has lost his principles.