Man is the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

In the right key one can say anything. In the wrong key, nothing: the only delicate part is the establishment of the key.

God's trustiest lieutenants often lack official credentials. They may be professed atheists who are also men of honour and high public spirit.

To be a champion you must live like one.

It is a noteworthy fact that kicking and beating have played so considerable a part in the habits which necessity has imposed on mankind in past ages that the only way of preventing civilized men from beating and kicking their wives is to organize games in which they can kick and beat balls.

Girls, like men, want to be petted, pitied, and made much of, when they are diffident, in low spirits, or in unrequited love. These are services which the weak cannot render to the strong and which the strong will not render to the weak, except when there is also a difference of sex.

I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.