You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.

There should be a burnished tablet let into the ground on the spot where some courageous man first ate Stilton cheese, and survived.

I always like a dog so long as he isn't spelled backward.

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect. Men do not quarrel about the meaning of sunsets; they never dispute that the hawthorn says the best and wittiest thing about the spring.

Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.

If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.

If a man does not talk to himself, it is because he is not worth talking to.