[On the British Museum:] It was manifestly impossible to read all the books in that huge, gloomy structure, but I made a good try and accumulated a fund of useless information guaranteed to cast a pall over any dinner table.
Serve the dinner backward, do anything - but for goodness sake, do something weird.
Only those who have earned leisure know how to use it profitably.
Keep your talent in the dark and you'll never be insulted.
The secret of my success is that no woman has ever been jealous of me.
Most rich people are the poorest people I know.