Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

Approaching forty, I had a singular dream in which I almost grasped the meaning and understood the nature of what it is that wastes in wasted time.

If one is too lazy to think, too vain to do a thing badly, too cowardly to admit it, one will never attain wisdom.

The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.

He [George Orwell] would not blow his nose without moralising on conditions in the handkerchief industry.

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.