There are few greater temptations on earth than to stay permanently at Oxford in meditation, and to read all the books in the Bodlean.

When you have lost your inns, drown your empty selves, for you will have lost the last of England.

Whatever happens, we have got The Maxim gun, and they have not.

To control the production of wealth is to control human life itself. To refuse man the opportunity for the production of wealth is to refuse him the opportunity for life; and, in general, the way in which the production of wealth is by law permitted is the only way in which the citizens can legally exist.

An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight.

If we are to be happy, decent and secure of our souls: drink some kind of fermented liquor with one's food; go on the water from time to time; dance on occasions, and sing in a chorus.

I forget the name of the place; I forget the name of the girl; but the wine was Chambertin.