The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

But as it is!...My language fails!
Go out and govern New South Wales!
‘Cautionary Tales’ (1907) ‘Lord Lundy’
A Trick that everyone abhors
In Little Girls is slamming Doors.
‘Cautionary Tales’ (1907) ‘Rebecca’
She was not really bad at heart,
But only rather rude and wild:
She was an aggravating child.
‘Cautionary Tales’ (1907) ‘Rebecca’
Of Courtesy, it is much less
Than Courage of Heart or Holiness,
Yet in my Walks it seems to me
That the Grace of God is in Courtesy.
‘Courtesy’ (1910)
John Henderson, an unbeliever,
Had lately lost his Joie de Vivre
From reading far too many books...
Moral: The moral is (it is indeed!)
You mustn’t monkey with the Creed.
‘Ladies and Gentlemen’ (1932) ‘The Example’
I said to Heart, ‘How goes it ?’ Heart replied:
‘Right as a Ribstone Pippin!’ But it lied.
‘The False Heart’ (1910)
I’m tired of Love: I’m still more tired of Rhyme.
But Money gives me pleasure all the time.
‘Fatigued’ (1923)
Strong brother in God and last companion, Wine.
‘Heroic Poem upon Wine’ (1926)
Remote and ineffectual Don
That dared attack my Chesterton.
‘Lines to a Don’ (1910)
Dons admirable! Dons of Might!
Uprising on my inward sight
Compact of ancient tales, and port
And sleep—and learning of a sort.
‘Lines to a Don’ (1910)
Whatever happens we have got
The Maxim Gun, and they have not.
‘The Modern Traveller’ (1898) pt. 6