To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.

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.

Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more telling. To know that a thing actually happened gives it a poignancy, touches a chord, which a piece of acknowledged fiction misses. It is to touch this chord that some authors have done everything they could to give you the impression that they are telling the plain truth.

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

They say a woman always remembers her first lover with affection; but perhaps she does not always remember him.

Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.

As if a woman ever loved a man for his virtue.