Vitality is a woman is a blind fury of creation.

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.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

A man's own self is the last person to believe in him, and is harder to cheat than the rest of the world.

Greatness is one of the sensations of littleness

It's a dangerous thing to be married right up to the hilt, like my daughter's husband. The man is at home all day, like a damned soul in hell.

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