Life is a first draft... with NO rewrite.

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults.

There is nothing on earth more exquisite than a bonny book, with well-placed columns of rich black writing in beautiful borders, and illuminated pictures cunningly inset. But nowadays, instead of looking at books, people read them. A book might as well be one of those orders for bacon and bran.

We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time, or we shall stick in the mud. Yet neither must we undertake a new world as catastrophic Utopians, and wreck our civilization in our hurry to mend it.

I learned more from the first stupid woman who fell in love with me than ever my brains taught me.

Most people go to their grave with their music inside them.