In earlier times they had no statistics and so they had to fall back on lies. Hence the huge exaggerations of primitive literature, giants, miracles, wonders! It's the size that counts. They did it with lies and we do it with statistics: but it's all the same.

Charles Dickens' creation of Mr. Pickwick did more for the elevation of the human race - I say it in all seriousness - than Cardinal Newman's Lead Kindly Light Amid the Encircling Gloom. Newman only cried out for light in the gloom of a sad world. Dickens gave it.

A sportsman is a man who, every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something.

It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.

Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets.

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.

Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.