People talk vaguely about the innocence of a little child, but they take mighty good care not to let it out of their sight for twenty minutes.

The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.

He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that though it is not true it has been found necessary to invent it.

There are certain fixed rules that one observes for one's own comfort. For instance, never be flippantly rude to any inoffensive grey-bearded stranger that you may meet in pine forests or hotel smoking-rooms on the Continent. It always turns out to be the King of Sweden.

But, 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.

No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve.

A woman who takes her husband about with her everywhere is like a cat that goes on playing with a mouse long after she's killed it.