A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.

Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. If all economists were laid end to end they would not reach a conclusion.

I never expect a soldier to think.

I am a sort of collector of religions: and the curious thing is that I find I can believe in them all.

When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a certificate of proficiency, the latter has completed the education of a gentleman.

Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.

There are only two classes in good society in England: the equestrian classes and the neurotic classes.