A child hasn’t a grown-up person’s appetite for affection. A little of it goes a long way with them; and they like a good imitation of it better than the real thing, as every nurse knows.

A colonial Imperialist is one who raises colonial troops, equips a colonial squadron, claims a Federal Parliament sending its measures to the Throne instead of to the Colonial Office, and, being finally brought by this means into insoluble conflict with the insular British Imperialist, "cuts the painter" and breaks up the Empire.

A dramatic critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned.

A FAMILY IS A TYRANNY RULED OVER BY ITS WEAKEST MEMBER.

A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

A gentleman of our days is one who has money enough to do what every fool would do if he could afford it: that is, consume without producing.

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his false knowledge: it is more dangerous than ignorance.

A limited monarchy is a device for combining the inertia of a wooden idol with the credibility of a flesh and blood one.