If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that almost all an Englishman's pleasures can be, and mostly are, shared by his dog.

The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves.

The philosopher is Nature's pilot.

The Englishmen is at his best on the links and at his worst in the Cabinet.

Everybody who does not live in a prostitute's bed and on a diet of cocaine snow is called an ascetic nowadays.

The buried truth germinates and breaks through to the light.

Give me the artist who breathes it like a native, and goes about his work in it as quietly as a common man goes about his ordinary business. Mozart did so; and that is why I like him. Even if I did not, I should pretend to; for a taste in his music is a mark of caste among musicians, and should be worn, like a tall hat, by the amateur who wishes to pass for a true Brahmin.