Beware of the conversationalist who adds "in other words." He is merely starting afresh.

In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.

When Abraham Lincoln was murdered The one thing that interested Matthew Arnold Was that the assassin shouted in Latin As he lept on the stage This convinced Matthew There was still hope for America.

The evening papers print what they do and get away with it because by afternoon the human mind is ruined anyhow.

We visit bookshops not so often to buy any one special book, but rather to rediscover, in the happier and more expressive words of others, our own encumbered soul.

If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.

If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so.