How can I find the words? Poets have taken them all and left me with nothing to say or do" "Except to teach me for the first time what they meant.

Nothing is more vulgar than a careful avoidance of beginning a letter with the first person singular.

There is only one kind of wisdom that has any social value, and that is the knowledge of one's own limitations.

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

The dogma of the Incarnation is the most dramatic thing about Christianity, and indeed, the most dramatic thing that ever entered the mind of man; but if you tell people so, they stare at you in bewilderment.

I often think when a man's once past a certain age, the older he grows the tougher he gets, and women the same or more so.

The trouble is. . .that everybody sneers at restrictions and demands freedom, till something annoying happens; then they demand angrily what has become of the discipline.