Youth is like spring, an over praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.

There is one class of mind that loves to lean on rules and definitions, and another that discards them as far as possible. A faddist will generally ask for a definition of faddism, and one who is not a faddist will be impatient of being asked to give one.

I am the enfant terrible of literature and science. If I cannot, and I know I cannot, get the literary and scientific bigwigs to give me a shilling, I can, and I know I can, heave bricks into the middle of them.

Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; as true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

Prayers are to men as dolls are to children. They are not without use and comfort, but it is not easy to take them very seriously.

I believe that he was really sorry that people would not believe he was sorry that he was not more sorry.