Customs are generally unselfish. Habits are nearly always selfish.

Man must have just enough faith in himself to have adventures, and just enough doubt of himself to enjoy them.

An event is not any more intrinsically intelligible or unintelligible because of the pace at which it moves. For a man who does not believe in a miracle, a slow miracle would be just as incredible as a swift one. The Greek witch may have turned sailors to swine with a stroke of the wand. But to see a naval gentleman of our acquaintance looking a little more like a pig every day, till he ended with four trotters and a curly tail, would not be any more soothing. It might be rather more creepy and uncanny.

There is also an insulting speech about 'one grey day just like another'. You might as well talk about one green tree like another.

Certain new theologians dispute original sin, which is the only part of Christian theology which can really be proved.

The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.

The man who says, 'my country right or wrong' is like the man who says, 'my mother drunk or sober'