More than half of modern culture depends upon what one shouldn't read.

When both a speaker and an audience are confused, the speech is profound.

In England people actually try to be brilliant at breakfast. That is so dreadful of them! Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

Newspapers have degenerated. They may now be absolutely relied upon.

Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed. People talk sometimes of secret vices, there are no such things. If a wretched man has a vice, it shows itself in the lines of his mouth, the droop of his eyelids, the moulding of his hands even.

To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.

If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.