The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.

You spend the first term at Oxford meeting interesting and exciting people and the rest of your time there avoiding them

MGM bores me when I see them, but I don't see them much. They have been a help in getting me introductions to morticians, who are the only people worth knowing.

One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric.

It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one's youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates marking one's stature on the edge of the door.

Wine is a bride who brings a great dowry to the man who woos her persistently and gracefully.

Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come into their kingdom.