And it amuses me to notice that the very Agnostics who still quote Galileo’s phrase about the earth, “And yet it moves!” are the very people who talk as if truth could be different from age to age—as

Remember always that there is one thing that cannot be endured by anybody or anything. That one unendurable thing is to be overworked and also neglected.

Things that happen very seldom we all leave out of our calculations, whether they are miraculous or not.

He was one of those to whom nature has given the desire without the power of artistic expression.

To put it roughly, we are prepared in some cases to listen to the man who complains of having a wife. But we are not prepared to listen, at such length, to the same man when he comes back and complains that he has not got a wife.

The one thing every man knows about the unknowable is that it is the Indispensable.

as his masters have already proved that alcohol is a poison, they may soon prove that nicotine is a poison.

It is the difference between planting a tree and building a tower; once planted, the tree lives by its own life.

Education, if it had ever really been in question, would doubtless have been a noble gift; education in the sense of the central tradition of history, with its freedom, its family honour, its chivalry which is the flower of Christendom.