Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

I prefer the man who calls his nonsense a mystery to him who who pretends it is a weighed, measured, analyzed fact.

The greatest thing in life is to die young - but delay it as long as possible.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. But here again, because there is nothing to sell, there is a very general disposition to regard a married woman's work as no work at all, and to take it as a matter of course that she should not be paid for it.

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

No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.