How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?

I'm only a beer teetotaller, not a champagne teetotaller.

A man has no business to marry a woman who can't make him miserable. It means she can't make him happy.

We are not taught to think decently on sex subjects, and consequently we have no language for them except indecent language.

People who are hard, grasping and always ready to take advantage of their neighbors become very rich.

In a living society every day is a day of judgment; and its recognition as such is not the end of all things but the beginning ofa real civilization.

It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public; and I am not sure that I am not still regarded as a suspicious character in some quarters.