Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.

I believe your own accent is inimitable, though I shall practice it in my bath.

The position we have now reached is this: starting from the State, we try to remedy the failures of all the families, all the nurseries, all the schools, all the workshops, all the secondary institutions that once had some authority of their own. Everything is ultimately brought into the Law Courts. We are trying to stop the leak at the other end.

Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline.

There is only one thing that stands in our midst, attenuated and threatened, but enthroned in some power like a ghost of the Middle Ages: the Trade Unions.

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats Grape-Nuts on principle.