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

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 yo….

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted..

An author should be delighted, not annoyed when he hears himself persistently misquoted. He could receive no higher compliment. It proves that the wo….

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 h….

Misquotation is the pride and privilege of the learned..

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

[D]on't grow old. With age comes caution, which is another name for cowardice.... Whatever else you do in life, don't cultivate a conscience. Without….

Do you believe in God? Perhaps you aren't old enough. The reason old people believe in God is because they've given up believing in anything else, an….

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

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

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..

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