Hate is the revenge of a coward intimidated.

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

We are not taught to think decently on sex subjects, and consequently we have no language for them except indecent language.

When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age, ask them how they would like to life in a stationary one, and do without change

There is nothing on earth more exquisite than a bonny book, with well-placed columns of rich black writing in beautiful borders, and illuminated pictures cunningly inset. But nowadays, instead of looking at books, people read them. A book might as well be one of those orders for bacon and bran.

We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way.

When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a certificate of proficiency, the latter has completed the education of a gentleman.