The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is.

A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

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.