A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?

I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene. It is the white-collar proletariat. They do not go to university to acquire culture but to get a job, and when they have got one, scamp it. They have no manners and are woefully unable to deal with any social predicament. Their idea of a celebration is to go to a public house and drink six beers. They are mean, malicious and envious . They are scum.

Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.

When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.

Make him laugh and he will think you a trivial fellow, but bore him in the right way and your reputation is assured.

One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her.

Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers.