If you lived in London, where the whole system is one of false good-fellowship, and you may know a man for twenty years without finding out that he hates you like poison, you would soon have your eyes opened. There we do unkind things in a kind way: we say bitter things in a sweet voice: we always give our friends chloroform when we tear them to pieces.

In your dread of dictators you established a state of society in which every ward boss is a dictator, every private employer a dictator, every financier a dictator, all with the livelihood of the workers at his mercy, and no public responsibility.

Literature is like any other trade; you will never sell anything unless you go to the right shop.

The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.

When God created man and woman, he did not take a patent. That's why any imbecile has been able to do so ever since.

The only way in which a nation can make itself wealthy and prosperous is by good housekeeping: that is, by providing for its wants in the order of their importance, and allowing no money to be wasted on whims and luxuries until necessities have been thoroughly served.

If you say that God is good, great, blessed, wise or any such thing, the starting point is this : God is.