Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

People get tired of everything, and of nothing sooner than of what they most like.

All classes in proportion to their lack of travel and familiarity with foreign literature are bellicose, prejudiced against foreigners, fond of fighting as a cruel sport - in short, dog-like in their notions of foreign policy.

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

If you leave your art, the world will beat you back to it. The world has not an ambition worth sharing, or a prize worth handling.

We have in England a curious belief in first-rate people, meaning all the people we do not know; and this consoles us for the undeniable second-rateness of the people we do know.

A tranquil woman can go on sewing longer than an angry man can go on fuming.