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.

To downgrade the human mind is bad theology.

The man who kills a man kills a man. The man who kills himself kills all men. As far as he is concerned, he wipes out the world.

Physical science is like simple addition: it is either infallible or it is false.

Half a truth is better than no politics.

All we know of the Missing Link is that he is missing - and he won't be missed either.

We are always giving foreign names to very native things. If there is a thing that reeks of the glorious tradition of the old English tavern, it is toasted cheese. But for some wild reason we call it Welsh rarebit. I believe that what we call Irish stew might more properly be called English stew, and that it is not particularly familiar in Ireland.