"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

"Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue."

"A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals."

"In art economy is always beauty."

"Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining."

"To dream is to realize that character is forged in the fires of discipline."

"Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency."

"The moral compass points true only when freed from the magnetism of personal gain. This remains the cornerstone of personal mastery."