Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.

If a cook can't make soup between two and seven, she can't make it in a week.

I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.

A man's own dinner is to himself so important that he cannot bring himself to believe that it is a matter utterly indifferent to anyone else.

I believe journalism is coming to be regarded as quite a respectable occupation for gentlemen nowadays.

Here in England the welfare of the State depends on the conduct of our aristocracy.

It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.