The grim frost is at hand, when apples will fall thick, almost thunderous, on the hardened earth.

Tragedy ought really to be a great kick at misery.

The reaction to any word may be, in an individual, either a mob-reaction or an individual reaction. It is up to the individual to ask himself: Is my reaction individual, or am I merely reacting from my mob-self? When it comes to the so-called obscene words, I should say that hardly one person in a million escapes mob-reaction.

Every profound new movement makes a great swing also backwards to some older, half-forgotten way of consciousness.

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

The Spanish wine, my God, it is foul, catpiss is champagne compared, this is the sulphurous urination of some aged horse.

Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.