Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you like. Hell, in short, is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.

It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

I must ... warn my readers that my attacks are directed against themselves, not against my stage figures.

Education can and should do much influence social, moral and intellectual discovery by stimulating critical attitudes of thought in the young

Go anywhere in England where there are natural wholesome, contented and really nice English people; and what do you find? That the stables are the real centre of the household.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

Though the Life Force supplies us with its own purpose, it has no other brains to work with than those it has painfully and imperfectly evolved in our heads.