monotony is not to be worshipped as a virtue; nor the marriage bed treated as a coffin for security rather than a couch from which to rise refreshed.

words are but drops pressed out of the lives of those who lived them.

One has to resign oneself to being a nuisance if one wants to get anything done.

I do dislike people with Moral Aims. Everyone asks me why I learn Arabic, and when I say I just like it, they looked shocked and incredulous.

The symbol is greater than visible substance. . . . Unhappy the land that has no symbols, or that chooses their meaning without great care.

I do think we should be provided with a new body about the age of thirty or so when we have learnt to attend to it with consideration.

every frontier is doomed to produce an opposition beyond it. Nothing short of the universal can build the unfenced peace.