I Never Forgive, But I

I Have Done Nothing Important Or Distinguished Since We Met Except To Win The Handicap Prize, Worth ?4 10/- At North Berwick.

In Effort Happiness Idleness Life Pleasure Superstition Support Trouble Work The Superstition That All Our Hours Of Work Are A Minus Quantity In The Happiness Of Life, And All The Hours Of Idleness Are Plus Ones, Is A Most Ludicrous And Pernicious Doctrine, And Its Greatest Support Comes From Our Not Taking Sufficient Trouble, Not Making A Real Effort, To Make Work As Near Pleasure As It Can Be.

He [a. J. Balfour] Was Eminently One Of The Cole Porter School Of Famous Men, Who Only Fell To Rise Again. Picking Himself Up And Brushing Himself Down Became A Minor Art Form, Ruefully Admired By His Contemporaries.

In Politics Nothing Matters Very Much, And Few Things Matter At All.

Science Preceded The Theory Of Science, And Is Independent Of It. Science Preceded Naturalism, And Will Survive It.