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

There is only one person an English girl hates more than she hates her elder sister; and that is her mother.

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is that conventionality saves so much time and thought and trouble and social friction of one sort or another that it leaves them much more leisure time for freedom than unconventionality does.

A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.

Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph.

I must have been an insufferable child; all children are.