Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.

The truth is that there are no things for which men will make such herculean efforts as the things of which they know they are unworthy.

Women have a thirst for order and beauty as for something physical; there is a strange female power of hating ugliness and waste as good men can only hate sin and bad men virtue.

But we are the people of England; and we have not spoken yet. Smile at us, pay us, pass us. But do not quite forget.

There are two ways of getting home; and one of them is to stay there.

It is well sometimes to half understand a poem in the same manner that we half understand the world.

The most poetical thing in the world is not being sick.