Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.

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.

All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

A citizen can hardly distinguish between a tax and a fine, except that the fine is generally much lighter.

'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'

Even in an empire of atheists the dead man is always sacred.

The objection to fairy stories is that they tell children there are dragons. But children have always known there are dragons. Fairy stories tell children that dragons can be killed.