If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.

Christianity satisfies suddenly and perfectly man's ancestral instinct for being the right way up; satisfies it supremely in this, that by its creed Joy becomes something gigantic, and Sadness something special and small.

Grey is a colour that always seems on the eve of changing to some other colour.

He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it.

There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

Jokes are generally honest. Complete solemnity is always dishonest.