There's a lot of difference between listening and hearing.

We are always giving foreign names to very native things. If there is a thing that reeks of the glorious tradition of the old English tavern, it is toasted cheese. But for some wild reason we call it Welsh rarebit. I believe that what we call Irish stew might more properly be called English stew, and that it is not particularly familiar in Ireland.

In truth, there are only two kinds of people; those who accept dogma and know it, and those who accept dogma and don't know it.

Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.

I am a journalist and have no earthly motives except curiosity and personal vanity.

A nation that has nothing but its amusements will not be amused for long.

Altruists, with thin, weak voices, denounce Christ as an egoist. Egoists (with even thinner and weaker voices) denounce Him as an altruist.