Cleanliness is not next to godliness nowadays, for cleanliness is made an essential and godliness is regarded as an offence.

It has been often said, very truly, that religion is the thing that makes the ordinary man feel extraordinary; it is an equally important truth that religion is the thing that makes the extraordinary man feel ordinary.

I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible since.

You'll never find the solution if you don't see the problem.

We lose our bearings entirely by speaking of the 'lower classes' when we mean humanity minus ourselves.

Not only does "orthodox" no longer mean being right, it practically means being wrong.

Our society is so abnormal that the normal man never dreams of having the normal occupation of looking after his own property. When he chooses a trade, he chooses one of the ten thousand trades that involve looking after other people's property.