Newspapers have degenerated. They may now be absolutely relied upon.

When people talk to us about others they are usually dull. When they talk to us about themselves they are nearly always interesting.

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.

When we are happy, we are always good, but when we are good, we are not always happy.

I wanted to eat of the fruit of all the trees in the garden of the world… And so, indeed, I went out, and so I lived. My only mistake was that I confined myself so exclusively to the trees of what seemed to me the sun-lit side of the garden, and shunned the other side for its shadow and its gloom.

The greatest of all sins is stupidity.

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.