The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

A yawn is a silent shout.

I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

Half a truth is better than no politics.

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.