Nature holds no brief for the human experiment; it must stand or fall by its results.

To a professional critic (I have been one myself) theatre-going is the curse of Adam. The play is the evil he is paid to endure in the sweat of his brow; and the sooner it is over, the better.

The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist

All sorts of bodily diseases are produced by half-used minds.

Take the utmost care to get well born and well brought up.

You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.

Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled.