Business is so much lower a thing than learning that a man used to the last cannot easily bring his stomach down to the first.

Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought.

Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is very good company by the way.

I often think how much easier the world would have been to manage if Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini had been at Oxford.

There is an accumulative cruelty in a number of men, though none in particular are ill natured.

The past is the best way to suppose what may come.

Formality is sufficiently revenged upon the world for being so unreasonably laughed at; it is destroyed, it is true, but it hath the spiteful satisfaction of seeing everything destroyed with it.