The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

In an article on Bunyan lately published in the "Contemporary Review" - the only article on the subject worth reading on the subject I ever saw (yes, thank you, I am familiar with Macaulay's patronizing prattle about "The Pilgrim's Progress") etc.

If you do not write for publication, there is little point in writing at all.

Stop being Jews and start being human beings.

I do not, like the Fundamentalists, believe that creation stopped six thousand years ago after a week of hard work. Creation is going on all the time.

There is only one person an English girl hates more than she hates her elder sister; and that is her mother.

The British churchgoer prefers a severe preacher because he thinks a few home truths will do his neighbors no harm.