What life and death may be to a turkey is not my business; but the soul of Scrooge and the body of Cratchit are my business.

At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. . . .

It is ludicrous to suppose that the more sceptical we are the more we see good in everything. It is clear that the more we are certain what good is, the more we shall see good in everything.

A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.

If we want to give poor people soap we must set out deliberately to give them luxuries. If we will not make them rich enough to be clean, then empathically we must do what we did with the saints. We must reverence them for being dirty.

All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.

It is the chief value of legend to mix up the centuries while preserving the sentiment.