I can resist anything but the temptation to make a clever witticism.

If you meet at dinner a man who has spent his life in educating himself - a rare type in our time ... you rise from table richer, and conscious that a high ideal has for a moment touched and sanctified your days. But Oh! my dear Ernest, to sit next to a man who has spent his life in trying to educate others! What a dreadful experience that is!

Don't be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning.

Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live.

One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed.

There was purification in punishment. Not 'Forgive us our sins,' but 'Smite us for our iniquities' should be the prayer of a man to a most just God.

I see that any materialism in life coarsens the soul, and that the hunger of the body and the appetites of the flesh desecrate always, and often destroy.