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

Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.

Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.

Money gives me pleasure all the time.

I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.

The choice lies between property on the one hand and slavery, public or private, on the other. There is no third issue.