The best and most popular novelists do not, as a rule, have children in their books at all, and this is wise. Parents are about the only people who are interested in children, and they merely in their own ones.

Am sorry to note that abuse and condemnation of a common acquaintance often constitutes very strong bond of union between otherwise uncongenial spirits.

Inequalities of Fate very curious. Should like, on this account, to believe in Reincarnation.

Are modern children going to revolt against being modern, and if so, what form will reaction of modern parents take?

Most Englishmen are convinced that God is an Englishman, probably educated at Eton.

Every Englishman is an average Englishman: it is a national characteristic.

People in England who do not like gardening are very few, and of the few there are, many do not own to it, knowing that they might just as well own to having been in prison, or got drunk at Buckingham Palace.