A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.

Life is too short for men to take it seriously.

If Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable voters.

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.

Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.

The trouble with the media is that it seems unable to distinguish between the end of the world and a bicycle accident.

I shall always be a flower girl to Professor Higgins, because he always treats me as a flower girl, and always will; but I know I can be a lady to you, because you always treat me as a lady, and always will.