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

By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.

Bowing down in blind credulity, as is my custom, before mere authority and the tradition of the elders, superstitiously swallowing a story I could not test at the time by experiment or private judgment, I am firmly of the opinion that I was born on the 29th of May, 1874, on Campden Hill, Kensington; and baptised according to the formularies of the Church of England in the little church of St. George opposite the large Waterworks Tower that dominated that ridge.

Teach to the young, men's enduring truths, and let the learned amuse themselves with their passing errors.

The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.

The professional soldier gains more and more power as the general courage of a community declines.

But they none of them create the psychological conditions in which I first saw, or desired to see, the flower.