Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.

Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.

Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem.

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf ;is better than a whole loaf.

The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.

The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It is meant for the mere slave of a routine of self-education to stuff himself with every sort of incongruous intellectual food in one indigestible meal.