Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world.

If this is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners, she doesn't deserve to have any.

Starvation, not sin, is the parent of modern crime.

I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.

I can resist anything but the temptation to make a clever witticism.

Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

We are never more true to ourselves than when we are inconsistent.