It is a good sign in a nation when things are done badly. It shows that all the people are doing them. And it is bad sign in a nation when such things are done very well, for it shows that only a few experts and eccentrics are doing them, and that the nation is merely looking on.

A third-class carriage is a community, while a first-class carriage is a place of wild hermits.

There is no bigot like the atheist.

Somehow one can never manage to be an atheist.

A nation that has nothing but its amusements will not be amused for long.

A man looking at a hippopotamus may sometimes be tempted to regard a hippopotamus as an enormous mistake; but he is also bound to confess that a fortunate inferiority prevents him personally from making such mistakes.

Our digestions, going sacredly and silently right, that is the foundation of all poetry.