No people in the world can make you feel so small as the English..

It is not always easy to diagnose. The simplest form of stupidity - the mumbling, nose-picking, stolid incomprehension - can be detected by anyone. B….

If you attack Stupidity you attack an entrenched interest with friends in government and every walk of public life..

Fiction is not photography, it's oil painting..

They're all so highly educated, you know. Education is a great shield against experience. It offers so much, ready-made and all from the best shops, ….

Sometimes there was a serious article on a hot topic, and I especially remember one by a bishop headed "Is Nudity Salacious?" The bishop thought it n….

After all, we are human beings, and not creatures of infinite possibilities..

Marriage is a framework to preserve friendship. It is valuable because it gives much more room to develop than just living together. It provides a ba….

Did you know that Puritanism went hand in hand with dirt, that Oliver Cromwell put a 100 per cent tax on soap and that the repeal of the soap tax was….

Only a fool expects to be happy all the time..

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life..

This is the Great Theatre of Life. Admission is free, but the taxation is mortal. You come when you can, and leave when you must. The show is continu….

No one needs a word processor if he has an efficient secretary..

In my collection, to me at least, the theatre of the past lives again and those long-dead playwrights and actors have in me an enthralled audience of….

These matters require what I think of as the Shakespearean cast of thought. That is to say, a fine credulity about everything, kept in check by a liv….

We have educated ourselves into a world from which wonder, and he fear and dread and splendor and freedom of wonder have been banished. Of course won….

The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne..

Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for the tomb.

But as a skeptic I am dubious about science as about everything else, unless the scientist is himself a skeptic, and few of them are. The stench of f….

I don't suppose God laughs at the people who think He doesn't exist. He's above jokes. But the devil isn't. That's one of his most endearing qualitie….

"There is no disputing about tastes," says the old saw. In my experience there is little else..