All literary style, especially national style, is made up of such coincidences, which are a spiritual sort of puns. That is why style is untranslatable.

The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.

Students of popular science... are always insisting that Christianity and Buddhism are very much alike, especially Buddhism. This is generally believed, and I believed it myself until I read a book giving the reasons for it.

The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.

It is very good for a man to talk about what he does not understand; as long as he understands that he does not understand it.

The old idea that the joke was not good enough for the company has been superseded by the new aristocratic idea that the company was not worthy of the joke. They have introduced an almost insane individualism into that one form of intercourse which is specially and uproariously communal. They have made even levities into secrets. They have made laughter lonelier than tears.

The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it.