A true university can never rest upon the will of one man. A true university always rests upon the wills of many divergent-minded old men, who refuse to be disturbed, but who growl in their kennels.

The fact that a man is to vote forces him to think.

I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns.

People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

The power of quotation is as dreadful a weapon as any which the human intellect can forge.

It is three and a half hours long, four characters wide and a cesspool deep.