For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.

There is only one thing that stands in our midst, attenuated and threatened, but enthroned in some power like a ghost of the Middle Ages: the Trade Unions.

Nothing is so remote from us as the thing which is not old enough to be history and not new enough to be news.

The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion, but, on the contrary, of its liberality and humanity. It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted, and only a few things are forbidden.

It is much easier to write a good Times leading article than a good joke in Punch.

Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.

When once you have got hold of a vulgar joke, you may be certain that you have got hold of a subtle and spiritual idea.