Faith begins as an experiment, and ends as an experience.

The statistics of suicide show that, for non-combatants at least, life is more interesting in war than in peace.

We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.

In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be adopted.

Don't break the silence unless you can improve on it.

I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.