There are two things necessary to Salvation.... Money and gunpowder.

There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst.

Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman.

The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the progress of society that they should be shocked pretty often.

The best bought-up children are those who have seen thier parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the first duty of a parent.

God's trustiest lieutenants often lack official credentials. They may be professed atheists who are also men of honour and high public spirit.

Faith in reason as a prime motor is no longer the criterion of the sound mind, any more than faith in the Bible is the criterion of righteous intention.