Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.

Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.

Nobody ever died of laughter.

You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind-legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.

I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

Only the insane take themselves seriously.

Strange when you come to think of it, that of all countless folk who have lived on this planet, not one is known in history or in legend as having died of laughter.