Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place. They teach you to be a gentleman there. In the polytechnic they teach you to be an engineer or such like. See?

A man who loses his money gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.

In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.

They tell me that So-and-So, who does not write prefaces, is no charlatan. Well, I am. I first caught the ear of the British public on a cart in Hyde Park, to the blaring of brass bands,and this . . . because . . . I am a natural-born mountebank.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age, ask them how they would like to life in a stationary one, and do without change

Grain by grain, a loaf. Stone upon stone, a palace.