Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

It is in the brain that the poppy is red, that the apple is odorous, that the skylark sings.

Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.

There are two ways of disliking poetry, one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope.

My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.

The heart was made to be broken.

Then there was a man who said, 'I never knew what real happiness was until I got married; by then it was too late'