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.

But since he stood for England And knew what England means, Unless you give him bacon You must not give him beans.

It is the friction of two spiritual things, of tradition and invention, or of substance and symbol, from which the mind takes fire. The creeds condemned as complex have something like the secret of sex; they can breed thoughts.

At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. . . .

Like every book I never wrote, it is by far the best book I have ever written.

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

All real democracy is an attempt like that of a jolly hostess to bring the shy people out.