If you can describe clearly without a diagram the proper way of making this or that knot, then you are a master of the English language.

Protest against Industrial Capitalism from one aspect or another is universal: so was the protest against the condition of European religion at the beginning of the sixteenth century.

There are few greater temptations on earth than to stay permanently at Oxford in meditation, and to read all the books in the Bodlean.

The sea drives truth into a man like salt.

We may not say to the poor: "You have a right to fight the rich merely because they are rich and in order to make yourselves less poor." We may say: "You have a right to fight to prevent the conditions of your life becoming inhuman," but we may not say, "You have a right to fight merely because you desire to have more and your opponent to have less."

Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.

It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.