Culture is like the sum of special knowledge that accumulates in any large united family and is the common property of all its members. When we of the great Culture Family meet, we exchange reminiscences about Grandfather Homer, and that awful old Dr. Johnson, and Aunt Sappho, and poor Johnny Keats.

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

Real progress is progress in charity, all other advances being secondary thereto.

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.

Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.

Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.