All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death.

The simplification of anything is always sensational.

I entertain a private suspicion that physical sports were much more really effective and beneficent when they were not taken quite so seriously. One of the first essentials of sport being healthy is that it should be delightful; it is rapidly becoming a false religion with austerities and prostrations.

There must be some good in the life of battle, for so many good men have enjoyed being soldiers.

The woman does not work because the man tells her to work and she obeys. On the contrary, the woman works because she has told the man to work and he hasn’t obeyed.

Puritanism was an honourable mood; it was a noble fad. In other words, it was a highly creditable mistake.

What was wonderful about childhood is that anything in it was a wonder. It was not merely a world full of miracles; it was a miraculous world.