A man may have strong humanitarian and democratic principles, but if he happens to have been brought up as a bath-taking, shirt-changing lover of fresh air, he will have to overcome certain physical repugnance before he can bring himself to put those principles into practice.

By comparison with a night-club, churches are positively gay.

The creation by word-power of something out of nothing--what is that but magic? And, may I add, what is that but literature?

For every traveller who has any taste of his own, the only useful guidebook will be the one which he himself has written.

There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

Pageantry is a visionary art which has been used, from time immemorial, as a political instrument.

Can you say something about nothing?