Edward Verrall Lucas

“The world is only beginning to see that the wealth of a nation consists more than anything else in the number of its healthy and happy children.”

“I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.”

“Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.”

“Solitude is the salt of personhood. It brings out the authentic flavor of every experience.”

“Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.”

“One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one.”

“The first thing to do is to arrange to be born in Paris. After that, everything follows quite naturally.”

“Heretics have been hated from the beginning of recorded time; they have been ostracized, exiled, tortured, maimed, and murdered; but it has generally proved impossible to smother them.”

“Have you ever noticed that the children of very prudent parents are wild?”

“An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.”

“The real secret of happiness is not what you give or what you receive, it's what you share.”

“All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.”