The privilege of a university education is a great one; the more widely it is extended the better for any country.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars.

I am very glad there are quite a number of people born with a gift and a liking for all of this; like great chessplayers who play sixteen games at once blindfold and die quite soon of epilepsy. Serve them right! I hope the Mathematicians, however, are well rewarded. I promise never to blackleg their profession nor take the bread out of their mouths.

I do not wonder that British youth is in revolt against the morbid doctrine that nothing matters but the equal sharing of miseries; that what used to be called the submerged tenth can only be rescued by bringing the other nine-tenths down to their le.

Life can either be accepted or changed. If it is not accepted, it must be changed. If it cannot be changed, then it must be accepted.