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

Never write up your diary on the day itself, for it takes longer than that to know what happened.

When you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book.

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.

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.

Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities.

High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.