Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

Tea is the only simple pleasure left to us.

We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed man.

A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Something was dead in each of us, and what was dead was hope