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.

The best bought-up children are those who have seen thier parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the first duty of a parent.

Medical science is as yet very imperfectly differentiated from common cure-mongering witchcraft

My friend, when a man has anything to tell in this world, the difficulty is not to make him tell it, but to prevent him from telling it too often.

It is long and hard and painful to create life: it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.

When you prevent me from doing anything I want to do, that is persecution; when I prevent you from doing anything you want to do, that is law, order, and morals.