Old-fogyism is comfortably closing in.

They [the English] have a special word, "civil," for what is elsewhere merely ordinary politeness.

Only the curious will learn and only the resolute will overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.

Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.

I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about.

I find more and more that I am a man of the 1920s. I still expect something exciting. Drinks, animated conversation, gaiety: the uninhibited exchange of ideas.

At 60 the sexual preoccupation, when it hits you, seems sometimes sharper, as if it were an elderly malady, like gout.