The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post.

Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.

Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.

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

The disasters of the world are due to its inhabitants not being able to grow old simultaneously. There is always a raw and intolerant nation eager to destroy the tolerant and mellow.

No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind.

The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven.