Men are always thinking that they are going to do something grandly wicked to their enemies; but when it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.

It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.

The notion that the colonel need be a better man than the private is as confused as the notion that the keystone need be stronger than the coping stone.

Money is the counter that enables life to be lived socially; it is life as truly as sovereigns and banknotes are money.

Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place.

Fine art is the only teacher except torture.

When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, whither do we turn? To the murder column.