If you want to get the best out of a man, you must look for the best that is in him.

Science is vastly more stimulating to the imagination than are the classics.

If human beings could be propagated by cutting, like apple trees, aristocracy would be biologically sound.

Shelley and Keats were the last English poets who were at all up to date in their chemical knowledge.

I have never yet met a healthy person who worried very much about his health, or a really good person who worried much about his own soul.