"As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone."

"To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination."

"The perfection of art is to conceal art."

"Our minds are like our stomaches they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite."

"There are a million ways of arriving at a performance, any number of them solid."

"I've had two terrific relationships, but both ended in marriage."

"It is a radiant truth that a life without philosophical reflection is a vessel adrift on an uncharted sea — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"I hated the royal wedding."