You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
The unread is always better than the unreadable.
I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live nor the smallest instinct about when to die.
Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.
In one dancing saloon I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across. Over the piano was printed a notice: 'Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.'