Schopenhauer has analysed the pessimism that characterize modern thought, but Hamlet invented it

To know anything about oneself one must know all about others.

Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable

Rugby is a good occasion for keeping thirty bullies far from the center of the city.

The youth of the present day are quite monstrous. They have absolutely no respect for dyed hair.

Where your life leads you, you must go

It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realise his ideal. But the true tragedy that dogs the steps of most artists is that they realise their ideal too absolutely. For, when the ideal is realised, it is robbed of its wonder and its mystery, and becomes simply a new starting-point for an ideal that is other than itself.