She had never really listened to anyone in her life; which, some said, was why she had survived.

I need not pause to explain that crime is not a disease. It is criminology that is a disease.

A great curse has fallen upon modern life with the discovery of the vastness of the word Education.

I like the Americans for a great many reasons. I like them because even the modern thing called industrialism has not entirely destroyed in them the very ancient thing called democracy. I like them because they have a respect for work which really curbs the human tendency to snobbishness.

Wit is a sword; it is meant to make people feel the point as well as see it.

We are always giving foreign names to very native things. If there is a thing that reeks of the glorious tradition of the old English tavern, it is toasted cheese. But for some wild reason we call it Welsh rarebit. I believe that what we call Irish stew might more properly be called English stew, and that it is not particularly familiar in Ireland.

A third-class carriage is a community, while a first-class carriage is a place of wild hermits.