Puritanism was an honourable mood; it was a noble fad. In other words, it was a highly creditable mistake.

The strangest whim has seized me ... After all I think I will not hang myself today.

The Devil's walking parody; On all four-footed things.

Students of popular science... are always insisting that Christianity and Buddhism are very much alike, especially Buddhism. This is generally believed, and I believed it myself until I read a book giving the reasons for it.

Humour is meant, in a literal sense, to make game of man; that is, to dethrone him from his official dignity and hunt him like game.

The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.

To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.