Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.

A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he can't sit on it.

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.

There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise? Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. 'You forget,' said the Devil, with a chuckle, 'that I have been evolving too.

In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be adopted.

Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.