Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.

The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.

There is only one way to win hearts and that is to make oneself like unto those of whom one would be loved.

The artist can within limits make what he likes of his life... It is only the artist, and maybe the criminal, who can make his own.

There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.

There's no one as transparent as the person who thinks he's devilish deep.

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.