But we are all insane, anyway ... The suicides seem to be the only sane people.

No one can write perfect English and keep it up through a stretch of ten chapters. It has never been done.

The community is eminently Portuguese - that is to say, it is slow, poor, shiftless, sleepy, and lazy.

Water is an individual, an animal, and is alive, remove the hydrogen and it is an animal and is alive; the remaining oxygen is also an individual, an animal, and is alive. Recapitulation: the two individuals combined, constitute a third individual-and yet each continues to be an individual....here was mute Nature explaining the sublime mystery of the Trinity so luminously that even the commonest understanding could comprehend it, whereas many a trained master of words had labored to do it with speech and failed.

The choir always tittered and whispered all through the service. There was once a church choir that was not ill-bred, but I have forgotten where it was.

In Austria an editor who can write well is valuable, but he is not likely to remain so unless he can handle a sabre with charm.

Concentration of power in a political machine is bad; and an Established Church is only a political machine; it was invented for that; it is nursed, cradled, preserved for that; it is an enemy to human liberty, and does no good which it could not better do in a split-up and scattered condition.