It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.

Every scene, even the commonest, is wonderful, if only one can detach oneself, casting off all memory of use and custom and behold it, as it were, for the first time.

The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them; and the child has a very great deal to teach them

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

The makers of literature are those who have seen and felt the miraculous interestingness of the universe. If you have formed...literary taste...your life will be one long ecstasy of denying that the world is a dull place.

Make love to every woman you meet; if you get five per cent of your outlay it's a good investment.

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