Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.

Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.

I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.

It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have r…

Art hath an enemy called Ignorance.

One ought not to hoard culture. It should be adapted and infused into society as a leaven. Liberality of culture does not mean illiberality of its benefits.