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

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.

Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.

It is an admitted fact that the ordinary tomtit of commerce has a sounder aesthetic taste than the average female relative in the country.

Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born.

Children are given us to discourage our better emotions.

You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.