Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul.

I have a business appointment that I am anxious... to miss.

If the Socialism is Authoritarian; if there are Governments armed with economic power as they are now with political power; if, in a word, we are to have Industrial Tyrannies, then the last state of man will be worse than the first.

To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.

The Roman Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone - for respectable people, the Anglican Church will do.

The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable.

Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring.