I could never learn to like her, except on a raft at sea with no other provisions in sight.

If you want me to give you a two-hour presentation, I am ready today. If you want only a five-minute speech, it will take me two weeks to prepare.

Modesty died when clothes were born.

Talking of patriotism, what humbug it is; it is a word which always commemorates a robbery.

There is no such thing as a new idea. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope.

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

Apparently one of the most uncertain things in the world is the funeral of a religion.