Free verse is like free love; it is a contradiction in terms.

The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.

The first two facts which a healthy boy or girl feels about sex are these: first that it is beautiful and then that it is dangerous.

If an editor can only make people angry enough, they will write half his newspaper for him for nothing.

It is a mathematical fact that if a line be not perfectly directed towards a point, it will actually go further away from it as it comes nearer to it.

When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven't got any.

It is much easier to write a good Times leading article than a good joke in Punch.