Pully, hauly, tug with a will; the gods wiggle waggle, but the sky stands still.

The more you know, the more you see

Sleep is the most blessed and blessing of all natural graces.

When an artist deserts to the side of the angels, it is the most odious of treasons.

Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.

It is possible to argue that the really influential book is not that which converts ten millions of casual readers, but rather that which converts the very few who, at any given moment, succeed in seizing power. Marx and Sorel have been influential in the modern world, not so much because they were best-sellers (Sorel in particular was not at all a widely read author), but because among their few readers were two men, called respectively Lenin and Mussolini.

It is delightful to read on the spot the impressions and opinions of tourists who visited a hundred years ago, in the vehicles and with the aesthetic prejudices of the period, the places which you are visiting now. The voyage ceases to be a mere tour through space; you travel through time and thought as well.