The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols. |
The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there. |
The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves |
The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office. |
The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off. |
The chief objection of playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player |
The churches must learn humility as well as teach it. |
The conversion of Paul was no conversion at all; it was Paul who converted the religion that has raised one man above sin and death |
The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them. |
The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last. |
The earth is still bursting with the dead bodies of the victors. |
The English are not very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity |
The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. |
The established government has no more right to call itself the state than the smoke of London has to call itself the weather. |
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact than a drunken man is happier than a sober one |