the Church will go on being a Royal Academy of Males.

A happy childhood is perhaps the most-fortunate gift in life.

The joy of a party is the newness of people to each other, renewed strikingness of humanity. They love each other, to distraction. Really to distraction. Before they fall into conversation and separate. ... The strangeness, and the hopes aroused by strangeness, are illusions. Mirages arising wherever people gather expectantly together.

If there was a trick, there must be a trickster.

... men want recognition of their work, to help them believe in themselves.

Clear thought makes clear speech.

Quotations are feeble; you always regret making them.