The Church is a perpetually defeated thing that always outlives her conquerers.

Never could an increase of comfort or security be a sufficient good to be bought at the price of liberty.

Ownership by delegation is a contradiction in terms. When men say, for instance (by a false metaphor), that each member of the public should feel himself an owner of public property-such as a Town Park-and should therefore respect it as his own, they are saying something which all our experience proves to be completely false. No man feels of public property that it is his own; no man will treat it with the care of the affection of a thing which is his own.

If we are to be happy, decent and secure of our souls: drink some kind of fermented liquor with one's food; go on the water from time to time; dance on occasions, and sing in a chorus.

And the men that were boys when I was a boy Shall sit and drink with me.

Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea, Are all human frame requires.

I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.