We shall know what things are of overmastering importance when they have overmastered us.

The keeping of an idle woman is a badge of superior social status.

What? Sunday morning in an English family and no sausages? God bless my soul, what's the world coming to, eh?

He was being about as protective as a can-opener.

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

... at no point have I yet found artistic truth and theological truth at variance.

If we did not know all His retorts by heart, if we had not taken the sting out of them by incessant repetition in the accents of the pulpit, and if we had not somehow got it into our heads that brains were rather reprehnsible, we should reckon Him among the greatest wits of all time. Nobody else, in three brief years, has achieved such an output of epigram.