A citizen can hardly distinguish between a tax and a fine, except that the fine is generally much lighter.

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

Christianity satisfies suddenly and perfectly man's ancestral instinct for being the right way up; satisfies it supremely in this, that by its creed Joy becomes something gigantic, and Sadness something special and small.

Free verse is like free love; it is a contradiction in terms.

When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven't got any.

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

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.