Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

Don't use big words. They mean so little.

Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.

If you meet at dinner a man who has spent his life in educating himself - a rare type in our time ... you rise from table richer, and conscious that a high ideal has for a moment touched and sanctified your days. But Oh! my dear Ernest, to sit next to a man who has spent his life in trying to educate others! What a dreadful experience that is!

All criticism is a form of autobiography

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

It is so easy to convince others; it is so difficult to convince oneself.