The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
One is not always happy when one is good; but one is always good when one is happy.
I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.
If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
In England ... education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and would probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.