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.

I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.

When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.

On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.

The only one you need in your life is that person who shows you he needs you in his.

The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.

The unread is always better than the unreadable.