The problem with the press is that they can't tell the difference between a bicycle crash and the end of civilization.

O Lord! I don't know which is the worst of the country, the walking or the sitting at home with nothing to do.

Reasonable men adapt themselves to their environment; unreasonable men try to adapt their environment to themselves. Thus all progress is the result of the efforts of unreasonable men.

Marry Ann; and at the end of a week you'll find no more inspiration in her than in a plate of muffins.

When I see that the nineteenth century has crowned the idolatry of Art with the deification of Love, so that every poet is supposed to have pierced to the holy of holies when he has announced that Love is the Supreme, or the Enough, or the All, I feel that Art was safer in the hands of the most fanatical of Cromwell's major generals than it will be if ever it gets into mine.

If in the library of your house you do not have the works of the ancient Greek writers, then you live in a house with no light.

If the wicked flourish and the fittest survive, Nature must be the god of rascals.