If you've ever really been poor you remain poor at heart all your life. I've often walked when I could very well afford to take a taxi because I simply couldn't bring myself to waste the shilling it would cost.

Time is the inexplicable raw material of everything. With it, all is possible, without it nothing. The supply of time is truly a daily miracle, an affair genuinely astonishing when one examines it.

Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A national catastrophe.

The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.

As a rule people don't collect books; they let books collect themselves.

Prepare to live by all means, but for Heaven's sake do not forget to live.

You can only acquire really useful general ideas by first acquiring particular ideas . . . You cannot make bricks without straw.