My experience is that one's pleasures don't bear thinking about.

Property is organized robbery.

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.

Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.