No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.

We may assume that we keep people waiting symbolically because we do not wish to see them and that our anxiety is due not to being late, but to having to see them at all.

Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.

The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.

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.

Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.