We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit.

If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside.

There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances.

Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic - that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene gas. and that of dust, soft and warm and caressing like tweed.

Beavers bred in captivity, inhabiting a concrete pool, will, if given the timber, fatuously go through all the motions of damming an ancestral stream.

Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.

They are a very decent generous lot of people out here and they don't expect you to listen.... It's the secret of social ease in this country. They talk entirely for their own pleasure. Nothing they say is designed to be heard.