But I was frightfully fond of the universe and wanted to address it by a diminutive. I often did so; and it never seemed to mind.

To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not sure about being quiet.

Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these?

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

A nation that has nothing but its amusements will not be amused for long.

With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.

IF we desire European civilization to be a raid and a rescue, we shall insist rather that souls are in real peril than that their peril is ultimately unreal. And if we wish to exalt the outcast and the crucified, we shall rather wish to think that a veritable God was crucified, rather than a mere sage or hero. Above all, if we wish to protect the poor we shall be in favour of fixed rules and clear dogmas. The rules of a club are occasionally in favour of the poor member. The drift of a club is always in favour of the rich one.