I might inform those humanitarians who have a nightmare of new and needless babies (for some humanitarians have that sort of horror of humanity) that if the recent decline in the birth-rate were continued for a certain time, it might end in there being no babies at all; which would console them very much.

A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man.

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it.

When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.

When some English moralists write about the importance of having character, they appear to mean only the importance of having a dull character.

It was not the house that grew dull, but I that grew dull in it. My wife was better than all women, and yet I could not feel it.