If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it.

To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.

The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

What I say today everybody will say tomorrow, though they will not remember who put it into their heads. Indeed they will be right for I never remember who puts things into my head : it is the Zeitgeist.

Music is the brandy of the damned.

Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.