I am a journalist and have no earthly motives except curiosity and personal vanity.

Before the Roman came to Rye or out to severn strode, / The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road.

Love is not blind; that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound; and the more it is bound the less it is blind.

To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not sure about being quiet.

If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals, it is the modern strengthening of minor morals.

Boyhood is a most complex and incomprehensible thing. Even when one has been through it, one does not understand what it was. A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been the boy.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.