The point is not that this world is too sad to love or too glad not to love; the point is that when you do love a thing, its gladness is a reason for loving it, and its sadness a reason for loving it more.

I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.

Ivory may not be so white as snow, but the whole Arctic continent does not make ivory black.

Posting a letter and getting married [sic] are among the few things left that are entirely romantic; for to be entirely romantic, a thing must be irrevocable

The modern world is a crowd of very rapid racing cars all brought to a standstill and stuck in a block of traffic.

If the common man in the past had a grave respect for property, it may conceivably have been because he sometimes had some of his own.

It is not merely true that a creed unites men. Nay, a difference of creed unites men - so long as it is a clear difference. A boundary unites. Many a magnanimous Moslem and chivalrous Crusader must have been nearer to each other, because they were both dogmatists, than any two agnostics. "I say God is One," and "I say God is One but also Three," that is the beginning of a good quarrelsome, manly friendship.