There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.

The pure modernist is merely a snob; he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion.

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

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it.

Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before.