To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still.

People say sometimes that Beauty is superficial. That may be so. But at least it is not so superficial as Thought is. To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.

When people talk to me about the weather, I always feel they mean something else.

Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose.

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

It is not the prisoners who need reformation, it is the prisons.