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

It is chiefly, I regret to say, through journalism that such people find expression. I regret it because there is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.

One should always be a little improbable.

Nothing annoys people so much as not receiving invitations.

The curves of your lips rewrite history.

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.