Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.

Hitherto the plans of the educationalists have achieved very little of what they attempted, and indeed we may well thank the beneficent obstinacy of real mothers, real nurses, and (above all) real children for preserving the human race in such sanity as it still possesses.

One flesh. Or if you prefer, one ship. The starboard engine has gone. I, the port engine, must chug along somehow till we make harbour. Or rather, till the journey ends.

Is there a difference between a man who thinks that honesty is the best policy, and an honest man?

The first demand any work of art makes upon us is to surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way.

For the power of Man to make himself what he pleases means... the power of some men to make other men what THEY please.

But he always licked to get visitors alone in the billiard room and tell them stories about a mysterious lady, a foreign royalty, with whom he had driven about London. 'A devilish temper she had,' he would say. 'But she was a dem fine woman, sir, a dem fine woman.