The British churchgoer prefers a severe preacher because he thinks a few home truths will do his neighbors no harm.

The notion that inspiration is something that happened thousands of years ago, and was then finished and done with. . . the theory that God retired from business at that period and has not been heard from since, is as silly as it is blasphemous.

Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.

If you leave your art, the world will beat you back to it. The world has not an ambition worth sharing, or a prize worth handling.

To disbelieve in marriage is easy: to love a married woman is easy; but to betray a comrade, to be disloyal to a host, to break the covenant of bread and salt, is impossible.

Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material.

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