A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.

Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

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.

Why do all the clerks and navvies in the railway trains look so sad and tired, so very sad and tired? I will tell you. It is because they know that the train is going right. It is because they know that whatever place they have taken a ticket for that place they will reach. It is because after they have passed Sloane Square they know that the next station must be Victoria, and nothing but Victoria. Oh, their wild rapture! oh, their eyes like stars and their souls again in Eden, if the next station were unaccountably Baker Street!

Man is not merely an evolution but rather a revolution.

Stated baldly, charity certainly means one of two things–pardoning unpardonable acts, or loving unlovable people.