Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do

No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.

An Englishman does everything on principle: he fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles.

A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief.

Gardening is the only unquestionably useful job.