The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.

People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.

Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls.

To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.

When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.

No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.

The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.

I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs.

I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.

Undergraduates owe their happiness chiefly to the consciousness that they are no longer at school. The nonsense which was knocked out of them at school is all put gently back at Oxford or Cambridge.

I don't know that you're able to measure your aggregate wisdom as you go through life. I can't say that I ever feel that I'm sitting on top of a growing mound of wisdom.

Half finished work generally proves to be labor lost.

I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me.

I believe you can frighten people without showing their heads caved-in.

Every judgment in science stands on the edge of error, and is personal.

Contention is inseparable from creating knowledge. It is not contention we should try to avoid, but discourses that attempt to suppress contention.

I, like many people, am constantly on my phone.

Trust is the glue that holds relationships together.

The longing to produce great inspirations didn't produce anything but more longing.

Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.