Another sad comestive truth is that the best foods are the products of infinite and wearying trouble. The trouble need not be taken by the consumer, but someone, ever since the Fall, has had to take it.

Churches are wonderful and beautiful, and they are vehicles for religion, but no Church can have more than a very little of the truth.

Did you ever look through a microscope at a drop of pond water? You see plenty of love there. All the amoebae getting married. I presume they think it very exciting and important. We don't.

News is like food: it is the cooking and serving that makes it acceptable, not the material itself.

You should always believe what you read in the newspapers, for that makes them more interesting.

Nearly all novels are too long.

Atheism was natural enough, but heresy seemed strange. For, surely, if one could believe anything, one could believe everything.