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

We all live in the past, because there is nothing else to live in. To live in the present is like proposing to sit on a pin. It is too minute, it is too slight a support, it is too uncomfortable a posture, and it is of necessity followed immediately by totally different experiences, analogous to those of jumping up with a yell.

Children feel the whiteness of the lily with a graphic and passionate clearness which we cannot give them at all. The only thing we can give them is information-the information that if you break the lily in two it won't grow again.

Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek.

All my authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

Just at present you only see the tree by the light of the lamp. I wonder when you would ever see the lamp by the light of the tree.

An almost unnatural vigilance is really required of the citizen because of the horrible rapidity with which human institutions grow old.