There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.

What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.

Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.

Taking all the round of professions and occupations, you will find that every man is the worse for being poor; and the doctor is a specially dangerous man when poor.

I never accepted a knighthood because to me, is honour enough?

All religions begin with a revolt against morality, and perish when morality conquers them.

Hypocrisy ... is only bad when it is improperly used.