Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

The whole point of the Eugenic pseudo-scientific theories is that they are to be applied wholesale, by some more sweeping and generalizing money power than the individual husband or wife or household. Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other's.

Forms of expression always appear turgid to those who do not share the emotions they represent.

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

Correctitude implies nowadays a formal or fastidious use of words; and what is wanted is not so much the correct as the living use of words. It is the memory of the meaning of a word which is the life of the word.

Before the Roman came to Rye or out to severn strode, / The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road.

Thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste.