A good cause has to be careful of the company it keeps.

There is nothing rarer than a man who can be trusted never to throw away happiness, however eagerly he sometimes grasps it. In history we are as frequently interested in our own doom.

If there is to be any romance in marriage woman must be given every chance to earn a decent living at other occupations. Otherwise no man can be sure that he is loved for himself alone, and that his wife did not come to the Registry Office because she had no luck at the Labour Exchange.

Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is.

the reward for total abstinence from alcohol seems, illogically enough, to be the capacity for becoming intoxicated without it.

A great many quite good plays could be performed with rhythmic howls in the place of dialogue and lose almost nothing by the change.

... when the Spaniards persecuted heretics they may have been crude, but they were not being unreasonable or unpractical. They were at least wiser than the people of to-day who pretend that it does not matter what a man believes, as who should say that the flavour and digestibility of a pudding will have nothing to do with its ingredients.