Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.

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

A moderately honest man with a moderately faithful wife, moderate drinkers both, in a moderately healthy house: that is the true middle class unit.

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

It is assumed that the woman must wait, motionless, until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly.

That older and greater church to which I belong: the church where the oftener you laugh the better, because by laughter only can you destroy evil without malice

The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.