Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They can't give their entire attention to it. - Arnold Bennett

A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it.

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

Yes books are valuable. But not reading of books will take the place of a daily, candid, honest examination of what one has recently done, and what one is about to do - of a steady looking at one's self in the face (disconcerting though the sight may be).