All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

I want to be all used up when I die.

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

Treat a friend as a person who may someday become your enemy; an enemy as a person who may someday become your friend.

The writer who aims at producing the platitudes which are "not for an age, but for all time" has his reward in being unreadable inall ages.... The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only sort of man who writes about all people and about all time.

People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them

In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams; but I look after the drainage.