By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.

Customs are generally unselfish. Habits are nearly always selfish.

Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.

The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.

A man who says that no patriot should attack the Boer War until it is over is not worth answering intelligently; he is saying that no good son should warn his mother off a cliff until she has fallen over it.

Being 'contented' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.