Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats.

The day was so delightful that I wished one could live slowly as one can play music slowly.

I cannot see that art is anything less than a way of making joys perpetual.

If there is a God, I don't think He would demand that anyone bow down or stand up to Him. I often have a suspicion that God is still trying to work things out and hasn't finished.

If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: 'It seemed like a good idea at the time.'

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

Good God enlighten us! Which of these two belongs to the sterner sex - the man who sits in Whitehall all his life on a comfortable salary, or the woman who has to keep her teeth bared lest she has her meatless bone of 17s. 4d. a week snatched away from her and who has to produce the next generation on her off-days?