The best bought-up children are those who have seen thier parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the first duty of a parent.

If the English can survive their food, they can survive anything.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

Most married couples spend the whole day apart, the woman in the house, the man in the office or study or workshop.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

Without music we shall surely perish of drink, morphia, and all sorts of artificial exaggerations of the cruder delights of the senses.

The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.