Simple pleasures are the last healthy refuge in a complex world.

One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

Nowadays, saying what you really think can be a serious error since one risks being misunderstood.

Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.

The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happy married life.