Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is that conventionality saves so much time and thought and trouble and social friction of one sort or another that it leaves them much more leisure time for freedom than unconventionality does.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man or woman who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether they be painter or ploughman.

A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.

Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.

Don't lose faith. Promise yourself that you will be a success story, and I promise you that all the forces of the universe will unite to come to your aid; you might not feel today or for a while, but the longer you wait the bigger the prize.

You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.