A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

I entertain a private suspicion that physical sports were much more really effective and beneficent when they were not taken quite so seriously. One of the first essentials of sport being healthy is that it should be delightful; it is rapidly becoming a false religion with austerities and prostrations.

Spring never is spring unless it comes too soon.

It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.

The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint, a touch of the citizen. Nay, the really sane man knows that he has a touch of the madman.

Time and again, the Faith has to all appearances gone to the dogs. But each time, it was the dog that died.

There are two kinds of people in the world, the conscious dogmatists and the unconscious dogmatists. I have always found myself that the unconscious dogmatists were by far the most dogmatic.