... in the happy laughter of a theatre audience one can get the most immediate and numerically impressive guarantee that there is nothing in one's mind which is not familiar to the mass of persons living at the time.

The earth itself is slightly resistant to routine.

I believe if people are looking for the truth, the truth of the Christian religion will come out and meet them.

Without doubt cats are intellectuals who have been, by some mysterious decree of Providence, deprived of the comfort of the word.

There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.

Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization. ... The first thing a woman does when she gets a little money into her hands is to hire some other poor wretch to do her housework.

Like all bad drivers, he [Henry Andrews] thought he was the best driver in the world...