The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.

To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give... You will find that people forget the failures of others very quickly.... My last piece of advice is not to let anyone see your mortification, but whatever you fancy people are saying about you to go on with your ordinary life as though nothing unpleasant had happened to you.

You see, money to you means freedom; to me it means bondage.

Evil can be condoned only if in the beyond it is compensated by good and god himself needs immortality to vindicate his ways to man.

What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.

It is astonishing how many books I find there is no need for me to read at all.

I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.