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.

Christmas is forced upon a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press; on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred.

Money is a most important thing in the world.

As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read... But the Press is not free, the newspapers are owned by rich men.

As an old soldier, I admit the cowardice: it's as universal as seasickness, and matters just as little.

I am highly susceptible to the force of all truly religious music, especially to the music of my own church, the church of Shelley, Michelangelo, and Beethoven.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.