Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

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

A pornographic novelist is one who exploits the sexual instinct as a prostitute does. A legitimate sex novel elucidates it or brings out its poetry, tragedy, or comedy.

Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation.

It is a noteworthy fact that kicking and beating have played so considerable a part in the habits which necessity has imposed on mankind in past ages that the only way of preventing civilized men from beating and kicking their wives is to organize games in which they can kick and beat balls.

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.