A saint is one who makes goodness attractive. Surely, a great teacher does the same thing for education.

A saint is one who makes goodness attractive. Surely, a great teacher does the same thing for education.

I shall not die young, for I am already near seventy: I may die old.

I had never thought of myself as a dramatist, and, for really good technical results, the thought came too late: a man of letters has become too wordy to write economically for the stage.

If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.

I still think that if the human race, or even one nation, could only get right about its God the rest would follow.

The modern form of things had begun to appeal to me, also (as material for satire) politics, and the lives of the great and little, high up in the social scale.