There is a fatality about good resolutions – that they are always made too late

Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.

In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

I was very much disappointed in the Atlantic Ocean.

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

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.