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.

Never be a pioneer. It's the early Christian that gets the fattest lion.

A woman who takes her husband about with her everywhere is like a cat that goes on playing with a mouse long after she's killed it.

Mother, may I go and maffick, Tear around and hinder traffic?

Find yourself a cup; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things.

Sherard Blaw, the dramatist who had discovered himself, and who had given so ungrudgingly of his discovery to the world.

Oysters are more beautiful than any religion... There's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster.