A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of Hell.
A mind of the calibre of mine cannot derive its nutriment from cows.
A man’s interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself.
A man who has no office to go to — I dont care who he is — is a trial of which you can have no conception.
A love affair should always be a honeymoon. And the only way to make sure of that is to keep changing the man; for the same man can never keep it up.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing; but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break a nation’s nationality it will think of nothing else but getting it set again.
A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
A day’s work is a day’s work, neither more nor less, and the man who does it needs a day’s sustenance, a night’s repose and due leisure, whether he be painter or ploughman.
