Wine is a civilizing agent.

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.

The kind of poetry to avoid in the pretty-pretty kind that pleased our grandmothers, the kind that Longfellow and Tennyson, good poets at their best, wrote at their worst.

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

We prefer to think that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the originality of a thought, whereas it may be merely that the utterer has forgotten its source.

We are all citizens of history.

I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.