Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.

A man's character never changes radically from youth to old age. What happens is that circumstances bring out characteristics which have not been obvious to the superficial observer.

When people are old enough to know better they are old enough to do worse.

I am inclined to think that one's education has been in vain if one fails to learn that most schoolmasters are idiots.

There is no stronger craving in the world than that of the rich for titles, except that of the titled for riches.

Misquotation is the pride and privilege of the learned.

Fate stalks us with depressing monotony from womb to tomb, and, when we are least expecting it, deals us a series of crushing blows from behind.

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

Never neglect an opportunity to play leap-frog; it is the best of all games, and, unlike the terribly serious and conscientious pastimes of modern youth, will never become professionalized.

The English public doesn't really like Shakespeare; it prefers football.

Good aims not always make good books.

Really, what is the law when it stands in the way of what the government wants to do?

To climb the highest peaks, to travel through… celestial space, to turn our searchlights upon domains of eternal darkness, that is what makes life worth living.

I think that if you keep banging at the door all you need is a little foothold, a little tiny foothold, and then the rest will take care of itself.

Replace what you don't know about the future with what you do know about God!

It is a good thing to be a great sinner. Or should human beings allow Christ to have died on the Cross for the sake of our petty lies and our paltry whorings

Once again, her parents' problems had run through her life like a piece of heavy equipment, smashing everything in their way.

The big honour of the big revolutions belongs to the high intelligence who design the revolution, not to the masses who support and participate the revolution!

God's end is to enable me to see that he can walk on the chaos of my life just now.

We can never really change someone; people must change themselves.