Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to the universities go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene ... They are scum.

Loving-kindness is the better part of goodness. It lends grace to the sterner qualities of which this consists.

The best style is the style you don't notice.

I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

Music-hall songs provide the dull with wit, just as proverbs provide them with wisdom.