Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.

But the instinct of hoarding, like all other instincts, tends to become hypertrophied and perverted; and with the institution of private property comes another institution-that of plunder and brigandage. In private life, no motive of action is at present so powerful and so persistent as acquisitiveness, which unlike most other desires, knows no satiety. The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got, and not till then.

I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out.

Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends, to the eternal world; it has proved itself stronger than death.

Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist.

The statistics of suicide show that, for non-combatants at least, life is more interesting in war than in peace.

Deliberate cruelty to our defenceless and beautiful little cousins is surely one of the meanest and most detestable vices of which a human being can be guilty.