There's only one great evil in the world today. Despair.

I had been there before; I knew all about it.

'I don't believe you've changed at all, Charles.' 'No, I'm afraid not.' 'D'you want to change?' 'It's the only evidence of life.'

The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.

Now we shall both be alone, and I shall have no way of making you understand.' 'I don't want to make it easier for you,' I said; 'I hope your heart may break; but I do understand.

The great charm in argument is really finding one's own opinions, not other people's.

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.