It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest.

Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.

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

Men become old, but they never become good.

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

As I lounged in the Park, or strolled down Piccadilly, I used to look at everyone who passed me, and wonder, with mad curiosity, what sort of lives they led. some of them fascinated me. Others filled me with terror.

When a man does exactly what a woman expects him to do she doesn't think much of him. One should always do what a woman doesn't expect, just as one should say what she doesn't understand.