It is the inefficiency and sham of ... our schools ... that save us from being dashed on the rocks of false doctrine instead of drifting down the midstream of mere ignorance.

Be as romantic as you please about love ... but you mustn't be romantic about money.

Freedom, my good girl, means being able to count on how other people will behave.

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

My reputation grows with every failure.