Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal.

There are times when one is tempted to say that the great, sprawling, lethargic sin of Sloth is the oldest and greatest of the sins and the parent of all the rest.

It is impossible for human nature to believe that money is not there. It seems so much more likely that the money is there and only needs bawling for.

I have never regretted Paradise Lost since I discovered that it contained no eggs-and-bacon.

Advertise, or go under.

I can't think why fancy religions should have such a ghastly effect on one's grammar. It's a kind of intellectual rot that sets in, I'm afraid.

I have the most ill-regulated memory. It does those things which it ought not to do and leaves undone the things it ought to have done. But it has not yet gone on strike altogether.