Altogether too many sheep

Imprisonment is as irrevocable as death.

If you leave your art, the world will beat you back to it. The world has not an ambition worth sharing, or a prize worth handling.

I like a bit of mongrel myself, whether it's a man or a dog.

How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?

Whenever I see the word Operation, especially Trifling Operation, I at once write off the patient as dead.

A modern gentleman [rich person] is necessarily the enemy of his country. Even in war he does not fight to defend it, but to prevent his power of preying on it from passing to a foreigner.