Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which reminds me that I dreamed the other night that I was being hanged, but was the life and soul of the party.

The only enemy of innocence and beauty is time.

I agree about Shaw - he is haunted by the mystery he flouts. He is an atheist who trembles in the haunted corridor.

Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labour of its unfamiliar thought.

Love comes in at the eye.

The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.

Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.