The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.

A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it - and they do enjoy it as much as man and other circumstances will allow.

When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.

The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.

We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.

The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.

A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.