Christmas is forced upon a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press; on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred.

Beware of the man whose God is in the skies

It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief

As an old soldier I admit the cowardice : it's as universal as sea sickness, and matters just as little.

Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable, that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day in heaven, though plenty of people have described a day at the seaside.

If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, they would still not reach a conclusion.