But, good gracious, you've got to educate him first. You can't expect a boy to be vicious till he's been to a good school.

All decent people live beyond their incomes; those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's; a few gifted individuals manage to do both.

He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.

When people grow gradually rich their requirements and standard of living expand in proportion, while their present-giving instincts often remain in the undeveloped condition of their earlier days. Something showy and not-too-expensive in a shop is their only conception of the ideal gift.

Children are given us to discourage our better emotions.

We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometimes live apart.

There was something alike terrifying and piteous in the spectacle of these frail old morsels of humanity consecrating their last flickering energies to the task of making each other wretched. Hatred seemed to be the one faculty which had survived in undiminished vigor where all else was dropping into ordered and symmetrical decay.