Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned. To admire them is a distinct sign of provincialism of temperament. Upon the other hand they go on.

The English public takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.

Wisdom is to have dreams big enough not to lose sight when we pursue them.

Every one of course represents the spirit of his age, but there is an eternal aspect of the Spirit of every age which may be caught. To recreate the past from the mutilated fragments of the present is the task of the Historian.

There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life with perfect profiles, and end by adopting some useful profession.

They get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to think about.

Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.