Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman.

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

If you can say a thing with one stroke, unanswerably you have style; if not, you are at best a marchande de plaisir; a decorative litt

Wise kings wear shabby clothes, and leave the gold lace to the drum major.

Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health.

The notion that persons should be safe from extermination as long as they do not commit willful murder, or levy war against the Crown, or kidnap, or throw vitriol, is not only to limit social responsibility unnecessarily, and to privilege the large range of intolerable misconduct that lies outside them, but to divert attention from the essential justification for extermination, which is always incorrigible social incompatibility and nothing else.

Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.