Cleanliness is not next to godliness nowadays, for cleanliness is made an essential and godliness is regarded as an offence.

Stated baldly, charity certainly means one of two things–pardoning unpardonable acts, or loving unlovable people.

For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity; the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the Calvinist.

All the exaggerations are right, if they exaggerate the right thing.

There is nothing so weak, for working purposes, as this enormous importance attached to immediate victory. There is nothing that fails like success.

I should favour anything that would increase the present enormous authority of women and their creative action in their own homes. The average woman...is a despot; the average man is a serf.

I still hold. . .that the suburbs ought to be either glorified by romance and religion or else destroyed by fire from heaven, or even by firebrands from the earth.