What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn’t come every day.

The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the progress of society that they should be shocked pretty often.

I like flowers, I also like children, but I do not chop their heads off and keep them in bowls of water around the house.

English is the easiest language to speak badly.

Keep away from books and from men who get their ideas from books, and your own books will always be fresh.

Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation.

When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.