Art for art's sake makes no more sense than gin for gin's sake.

You will have to learn many tedious things,...which you will forget the moment you have passed your final examination, but in anatomy it is better to have learned and lost than never to have learned at all.

The value of culture is its effect on character. It avails nothing unless it ennobles and strengthens that. Its use is for life. Its aim is not beauty but goodness.

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

Dying is the most hellishly boresome experience in the world! Particularly when it entails dying of 'natural causes'.

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

A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute.