A woman whose face looked as if it had been made of sugar and someone had licked it.

The more ignorant men are, the more convinced are they that their little parish and their little chapel is an apex to which civilization and philosophy has painfully struggled up the pyramid of time from a desert of savagery.

Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State).

You may well ask me why...I took the time to write [books]. I can only reply that I do not know. There was no why about it. I had to: that was all.

Ladies and gentlemen are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen.

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

Spend all you have before you die, and do not outlive yourself.