Were I to deduce any system from my feelings on leaving Eton, it might be called The Theory of Permanent Adolescence. It is the theory that the experiences undergone by boys at the great public schools, their glories and disappointments, are so intense as to dominate their lives and to arrest their development. From these it results that the greater part of the ruling class remains adolescent, school-minded, self-conscious, cowardly, sentimental, and in the last analysis homosexual.

Happiness lies in the fulfillment of the spirit through the body.

The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life.

Most people do not believe in anything very much and our greatest poetry is given to us by those who do.

Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils.

If Montaigne is a man in the prime of life sitting in his study on a warm morning and putting down the sum of his experience in his rich, sinewy prose, then Pascal is that same man lying awake in the small hours of the night when death seems very close and every thought is heightened by the apprehension that it may be his last.

The greatest problem with women is how to contrive that they should seem our equals