The happy marriage, which is the only proper nursery, is indissoluble. The unhappy marriage, which perpetually tells the child a bogey-man story about life, ought to be dissolved.

Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space.

Economists are like Aeolian harps, and the sounds that issue from them are determined by the winds that blow.

Christianity must be regarded not as a final revelation but as a phase of revelation.

Like all bad drivers, he [Henry Andrews] thought he was the best driver in the world...

it is necessary that we should all have a little of the will to die, because otherwise we would find the performance of our biological duty of death too difficult.

Mr. Arnold Bennett feels he has ranked himself for ever as a dry wine by what he mixed with himself of Maupassant; nevertheless he has put on the market some grocer's Sauterne in the form of several novels that are highly sentimental so far as their fundamental balance of values is concerned.