Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner. W.

For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity.

From the earliest times the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser than they, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.

Genius is talent provided with ideals.

He had heard people speak contemptuously of money he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it. W.

Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practised at spare moments; it is a whole-time job.

I [Death] was astonished to see him in Baghdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra.

I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation. W.

I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice. W.

I do not confer praise or blame I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the centre of the world. W.