A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality.

To the humble man, and to the humble man alone, the sun is really a sun; to the humble man, and to the humble man alone, the sea is really a sea.

Too much capitalism does not mean too many capitalists, but too few capitalists.

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

There should be a burnished tablet let into the ground on the spot where some courageous man first ate Stilton cheese, and survived.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

[Consider] a fence or gate erected across a road] The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, "I don't see the use of this; let us clear it away." To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: "If you don't see the use of it, I certainly won't let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it."