But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.

[V]ariety of climate should always go with stability of abode.... an Englishman’s house is not only his castle; it is his fairy castle. Clouds and colours of every varied dawn and eve are perpetually touching and turning it from clay to gold, or from gold to ivory. There is a line of woodland beyond a corner of my garden which is literally different on every one of the three hundred and sixty-five days. Sometimes it seems as near as a hedge, and sometimes as far as a faint and fiery evening cloud.

Most Americans ... have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne.

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

I should say that psycho-analysis was confession without absolution.

Even a bad shot is dignified when he accepts a duel.

Just at present you only see the tree by the light of the lamp. I wonder when you would ever see the lamp by the light of the tree.