The practical question, then, is what to do with the children. Tolerate them at home we will not. Let them run loose in the streets we dare not until our streets become safe places for children, which, to our utter shame, they are not at present, though they can hardly be worse than some homes and some schools.

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

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

No severity of punishment deters when detection is uncertain, as it always must be.

A man who loses his money gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul.