Every notable advance in technique or organization has to be paid for, and in most cases the debit is more or less equivalent to the credit. Except of course when it's more than equivalent, as it has been with universal education, for example, or wireless, or these damned aeroplanes. In which case, of course, your progress is a step backwards and downwards.

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

Let us be kinder to one another.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

No holiday is ever anything but a disappointment.

We can only love what we know, and we can never know completely what we do not love. Love is a mode of knowledge

Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.