To seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.

After all, you can't expect men not to judge by appearances.

But, of course only morons would ever think or speak of themselves as intellectuals. That's why they all look so sad.

anger and jealousy are spasms of the nerves, not of the heart.

After a day of rain the sun came out suddenly at five o'clock and threw a golden bar into the deep Victorian gloom of the front parlour

I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.

Preserve, within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reverie.