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

Every reformation must have its victims. You can’t expect the fatted calf to share the enthusiasm of the angels over the prodigal’s return.

I believe I once considerably scandalized her by declaring that clear soup was a more important factor in life than a clear conscience.

There may have been disillusionments in the lives of the medieval saints, but they would scarcely have been better pleased if they could have foreseen that their names would be associated nowadays chiefly with racehorses and the cheaper clarets.

The revenge of an elder sister may be long in coming, but, like a South-Eastern express, it arrives in its own good time.

It is one of the consolations of middle aged reformers that the good that they inculcate must live after them if it is to live at all.

His socks compelled one's attention without losing one's respect.