The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.

Education is very admirable but let us not forget that anything worth knowing cannot be taught.

In England people actually try to be brilliant at breakfast. That is so dreadful of them! Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

Good heavens, I suppose a man may eat his own muffins in his own garden." "But you have just said it was perfectly heartless to eat muffins!" "I said it was perfectly heartless of YOU under the circumstances. That is a very different thing." "That may be, but the muffins are the same!

Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

It is very vulgar to talk about one's own business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then only at dinner parties.