There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle. He fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles; he bullies you on manly principles; he supports his king on loyal principles and cuts off his king's head on republican principles.

What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder: God will take care of that.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul.

A revolutionist is one who desires to discard the existing social order and try another.

Women are called womanly only when they regard themselves as existing solely for the use of men.

A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned.