And where was happiness if it sprung not from the soil? Where contentment if it dwelt not near to Nature?

What a man marries for's hard to tell ... an' what a woman marries for's past findin' out.

Given two tempers and the time, the ordinary marriage produces anarchy.

audacity is of all qualities the most youthful.

No idea is so antiquitated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not some day be antiquitated . . . to seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.

Apart from letters, it is the vulgar custom of the moment to deride the thinkers of the Victorian and Edwardian eras; yet there has not been, in all history, another agewhen so much sheer mental energy was directed toward creating a fairer social order.

First, I was an idealist (that was early - fools are born, not made, you know); next I was a realist; now I am a pessimist, and, by Jove! if things get much worse I'll become a humorist.