How agreeable to watch, from the other side of the high stile, this mighty creature, this fat bull of Bashan, snorting, champing, pawing the earth, lashing the tail, breathing defiance at heaven and at me ... his heart hot with hate, unable to climb a stile.

Life, for all its agonies...is exciting and beautiful, amusing and artful and endearing...and whatever is to come after it -- we shall not have this life again.

Age has extremely little to do with anything that matters. The difference between one age and another is, as a rule, enormously exaggerated.

Cranks live by theory, not by pure desire. They want votes, peace, nuts, liberty, and spinning-looms not because they love these things, as a child loves jam, but because they think they ought to have them. That is one element which makes the crank.

When I have eaten mangoes, I have felt like Eve.

To be prejudiced is the privilege of the thinking human being. ... The open mind is the empty mind.

God very seldom succeeds. He has very nearly everything against him, of course.