A sense of humor is so handy, isn't it? It lets you see both sides of a question so that you never need do anything.

If you are rich, you have lovely cars, and jars full of flowers, and books in rows, and a wireless, and the best sort of gramophone and meringues for supper.

no truth is strong enough to defeat a well-established legend.

Teachers have power. We may cripple them by petty economics; by Government regulations, by the foolish criticism of an uninformed press; but their power exists for good or evil.

public work brings a vicarious but assured sense of immortality. We may be poor, weak, timid, in debt to our landlady, bullied by our nieces, stiff in the joints, shortsighted and distressed; we shall perish, but the cause endures; the cause is great.

Oh, time betrays us. Time is the great enemy.

[On golf:] One of the most distressing defects of civilization.