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

The unexpectedness of life, waiting round every corner, catches even wise women unawares (...) To avoid corners altogether is, after all, to refuse to live.

It is only the unexpected that ever makes a customs officer think.

This is excellence - the following of anything for its own sake and with its own integrity.

Style is something peculiar to one person; it expresses one personality and one only; it cannot be shared.

Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.

The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction