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.

Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!

In an article on Bunyan lately published in the "Contemporary Review" - the only article on the subject worth reading on the subject I ever saw (yes, thank you, I am familiar with Macaulay's patronizing prattle about "The Pilgrim's Progress") etc.

It seems as though every time you learn something new you have to give up something.

The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs.

It was from Handel that I learned that style consists in force of assertion.