The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.

Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

If associations to control burglary and murder were tolerated we should take it for granted that the members should all be burglers and murderers.

The practical question, then, is what to do with the children. Tolerate them at home we will not. Let them run loose in the streets we dare not until our streets become safe places for children, which, to our utter shame, they are not at present, though they can hardly be worse than some homes and some schools.

When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.

Men trifle with their business and their politics but never trifle with their games. It brings truth home to them. They cannot pretend they have won when they have lost nor that they had a magnificent drive when they foozled it. The Englishman is at his best on the links and at his worst in the Cabinet.