The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.
The best way to enjoy your job is to imagine yourself without one.
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.
They have been eating muffins. That looks like repentance
It's either the wallpaper or me. One of us has to go. [These were his dying words.]
There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs that gratified the pride more than the passions, and gave to the intellect a quickened sense of joy, greater than any joy they brought, or could ever bring, to the senses.