Our dourest parsons, who followed the nonconformist fashion of long extemporary prayers, always seemed to me to be bent on bullying God.

To resent and remember brings strife; to forgive and forget brings peace.

There can be no doubt that smoking nowadays is largely a miserable automatic business. People use tobacco without ever taking an intelligent interest in it. They do not experiment, compare, fit the tobacco to the occasion. A man should always be pleasantly conscious of the fact that he is smoking.

I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.

A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.

What a grand, higgledy-piggledy, sensible old place Norwich is!

I fancy that the Hell of Too Many People would occupy a respectable place in the hierarchy of infernal regions.