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

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

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

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

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.

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

Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.