There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.

You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one.

Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.

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.

It is not the prisoners who need reformation, it is the prisons.

Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them, and we watch the dawn remaking the world in its antique pattern.