Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

It’s so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.

The test of a man or woman’s breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.

Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn’t got any.

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.