The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

The tyranny that forbids you to make the road with pick and shovel is worse than that which prevents you from lolling along it in a carriage and pair.

The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.

The vilest abortionist is he who attempts to mould a child's character.

The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs.

The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist.

The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity.

The XIX century was the Age of Faith in Fine Art. The results are before us.

The younger generation is knocking at the door, and as I open it there steps spritely in the incomparable Max.

There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.