I think oysters are more beautiful than any religion,' he resumed presently. 'They not only forgive our unkindness to them; they justify it, they incite us to go on being perfectly horrid to them. Once they arrive at the supper-table they seem to enter thoroughly into the spirit of the thing. There's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster.
Hector Hugh MunroBut, good gracious, you've got to educate him first. You can't expect a boy to be vicious till he's been to a good school.
Hector Hugh MunroIt is an admitted fact that the ordinary tomtit of commerce has a sounder aesthetic taste than the average female relative in the country.
Hector Hugh MunroNo one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve.
Hector Hugh Munro