Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.

If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.

Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.

I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.

When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.

It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.

It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.