“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”

“He atones for being occasionally somewhat overdressed by being always absolutely over-educated. He is a very modern type.”

“With an evening coat and a white tie, as you told me once, anybody, even a stock-broker, can gain a reputation for being civilized. Well, after I had been in the room about ten minutes, talking to huge overdressed dowagers and tedious academicians, I suddenly became conscious that some one was looking at me.”

“Man can believe the impossible, but can never believe the improbable”

“It can never be necessary to do what is not honourable.”

“I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do - the day after.”

“You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is.”