Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous.

What is wrong with the prosaic Englishman is what is wrong with the prosaic men of all countries: stupidity.

All dress is fancy dress, is it not, except our natural skins?

The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary

If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.

The first prison I ever saw had inscribed on it CEASE TO DO EVIL: LEARN TO DO WELL; but as the inscription was on the outside, the prisoners could not read it.

You're only a beginner; and what you think is love, and interest, and all that, is not real love at all: three quarters of it is only unsatisfied curiosity.