Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination.

If you do not write for publication, there is little point in writing at all.

There is only one person an English girl hates more than she hates her elder sister; and that is her mother.

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

We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time, or we shall stick in the mud. Yet neither must we undertake a new world as catastrophic Utopians, and wreck our civilization in our hurry to mend it.

Money enables us to get what we want instead of what other people think we want.

In the right key one can say anything. In the wrong key, nothing: the only delicate part is the establishment of the key.