Our way of getting an army able to fight the German army is to declare war on Germany just as if we had such an army, and then trust to the appalling resultant peril and disaster to drive us into wholesale enlistment.

There is only one belief that can rob death of its sting and the grave of its victory. For without that you cannot be born again.

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

The most sublime courage I have ever witnessed has been among that class too poor to know they possessed it, and too humble for the world to discover it.

The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.

There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.

All dress is fancy dress, is it not, except our natural skins?