He wondered why the pelican was the symbol of charity, except it was that it wanted a good deal of charity to admire a pelican.

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.

Just the other day in the Underground I enjoyed the pleasure of offering my seat to three ladies.

A good Moslem king was one who was strict in religion, valiant in battle, just in giving judgment among his people, but not one who had the slightest objection in international matters to removing his neighbour's landmark.

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.

There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.