The only imaginative prose writer of the slightest value who has appeared among the English-speaking races for some years past.

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

Clover was a stout motherly mare approaching middle life, who had never quite got her figure back after her fourth foal.

Man's greatest drive is not love or hate but to change another person's writing.

In all the modern talk about energy, efficiency, social service and the rest of it, what meaning is there except "Get money, get it legally, and get a lot of it"? Money has become the grand test of virtue.

Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful.

Money has become the grand test of virtue. By this test beggars fail, and for this they are despised. If one could earn even ten pounds a week at begging, it would become a respectable profession immediately. A beggar, looked at realistically, is simply a businessman, getting his living, like other businessmen, in the way that comes to hand. He has not, more than most modem people, sold his honour; he has merely made the mistake of choosing a trade at which it is impossible to grow rich.