I utilise all my spare moments. I've read twenty-seven of the Hundred Best Books. I collect ferns.
~ Max Beerbohm
No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.
There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.
To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.
The past is a work of art free of irrelevancies and loose ends.
Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.
We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.
People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.
To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.
As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal.
You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men.
When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.
