Be at the pains of putting down every single item of expenditure whatsoever every day which could possibly be twisted into a professional expense and remember to lump in all the doubtfulls.

Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea, Are all human frame requires.

The Reformation has been called in a biting epigram "a rising of the rich against the poor."

I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.

It has long been recognized by public men of all kinds. . . that statistics come under the head of lying, and that no lie is so false or inconclusive as that which is based on statistics.

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

For no one, in our long decline, So dusty, spiteful and divided, Had quite such pleasant friends as mine, Or loved them half as much as I did.