He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.

I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Algy, you always adopt a strictly immoral attitude towards life. You are not quite old enough to do that.

I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.

Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive

Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.

The crude commercialism of America, its materialising spirit, its indifference to the poetical side of things, and its lack of imagination and of high unattainable ideals, are entirely due to that country having adopted for its national hero a man who, according to his own confession, was incapable of telling a lie, and it is not too much to say that the story of George Washington and the cherry-tree has done more harm, and in a shorter space of time, than any other moral tale in the whole of literature.