A pen and a notebook and a reasonable amount of discrimination will change a journey from a mere annual into a perennial, its pleasures and pains renewable at will.

Your real progressives are never fair: they are never sufficiently neutral.

Constancy, far from being a virtue, seems often to be the besetting sin of the human race, daughter of laziness and self-sufficiency, sister of sleep, the cause of most wars and practically all persecutions.

To feel, and think, and learn - learn always: surely that is being alive and young in the real sense

... I want to be one of those people who are always to be found at home, nice restful people whom everybody likes because they give a feeling of permanence to this rushing world.

... it is a matter of civilizing everyone or not being civilized at all: the decay has always come from a partial civilization.

Fair and unfair are among the most influential words in English and must be delicately used.