[My ideal of a good dinner] is to discuss good food, and, after this good food has been discussed, to discuss a good topic - with myself the chief conversationalist.

Safety and certainty in oil lie in variety, and variety alone.

How I hated schools, and what a life of anxiety I lived there. I counted the hours to the end of every term, when I should return home.

[There are dangers in] the disposition to hunt down rich men as if they were noxious beasts.

A man must choose his own way of life, and…it is only by following out one’s own bent that there can be the really harmonious life.” [In an interview conducted by Bram Stoker]

One ought to be just before one is generous

My only consolation for the failure of the Dardanelles was that God wished things to be prolonged in order to sicken mankind of war, and that therefore He had interfered with a project that would have brought the war to a speedier conclusion.