We do not truly see light, we only see slower things lit by it, so that for us light is on the edge-the last thing we know before things become too swift for us.

Clearly one must read every good book at least once every ten years.

Could one start a Stagnation Party-which at General Elections would boast that during its term of office no event of the least importance had taken place?

Wherever any precept of traditional morality is simply challenged to produce its credentials, as though the burden of proof lay on it, we have taken the wrong position.

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

Liking an author may be as involuntary and improbable as falling in love.

Devils are depicted with bats' wings and good angels with birds' wings, not because anyone holds that moral deterioration would be likely to turn feathers into membrane, but because most men like birds better than bats.