It is very foolish of a man to be frightened of a skeleton, for Nature has put an insurmountable obstacle against running away from it.

But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.

People seem to fight about things very unsuitable for fighting. They make a frightful noise in support of very quiet things. They knock each other about in the name of very fragile things.

The determining bulk of Scotch people had heard of golf ever since they had heard of God and often considered the two as of equal importance.

The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint, a touch of the citizen. Nay, the really sane man knows that he has a touch of the madman.

The pure modernist is merely a snob; he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion.

Not only does "orthodox" no longer mean being right, it practically means being wrong.