Gambling promises the poor what Property performs for the rich: that is why the bishops dare not denounce it fundamentally.

Gin was mother’s milk to her.

Go anywhere in England, where there are natural, wholesome, contented, and really nice English people; and what do you always find? That the stables are the real centre of the household.

Government presents only one problem: the discovery of a trustworthy anthropometric method.

Great men refuse titles because they are jealous of them.

Greatness is only one of the sensations of littleness.

Greatness is the secular name for Divinity: both mean simply what lies beyond us.

Happiness and Beauty are by-products.

Hatred is the coward’s revenge for being intimidated.

He [the Briton] is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.