The miser is the man who starves himself and everybody else, in order to worship wealth in its dead form, as distinct from its living form.

The real pleasure-seeking is the combination of luxury and austerity in such a way that the luxury can really be felt.

The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels a profound sense of gratitude and has no one to thank.

It is much easier to write a good Times leading article than a good joke in Punch.

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

Every time a man knocks on a brothel door, he is really knocking for God

Comradeship is obvious and universal and open; but it is only one kind of affection; it has characteristics that would destroy any other kind. Anyone who has known true comradeship in a club or in a regiment, knows that it is impersonal.