It is a mathematical fact that if a line be not perfectly directed towards a point, it will actually go further away from it as it comes nearer to it.

Comforts that were rare among our forefathers are now multiplied in factories and handed out wholesale; and indeed, nobody nowadays, so long as he is content to go without air, space, quiet, decency and good manners, need be without anything whatever that he wants; or at least a reasonably cheap imitation of it.

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 comedy of man survives the tragedy of man.

The martyr endured tortures to affirm his belief in truth but he never asserted his disbelief in torture.

It was not the house that grew dull, but I that grew dull in it. My wife was better than all women, and yet I could not feel it.

People decided that it was impossible to achieve any of the good of Socialism, but they comforted themselves by achieving all the bad.