Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins.

Hard work is amply the refuge of those who have nothing to do.

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

If this is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners, she doesn't deserve to have any.

To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die.

We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.