Conventions are like coins, an easy way of dealing with the commerce of relations.

Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.

The tourist travels in his own atmosphere like a snail in his shell and stands, as it were, on his own perambulating doorstep to look at the continents of the world. But if you discard all this, and sally forth with a leisurely and blank mind, there is no knowing what may not happen to you.

To think to keep things as they are, is to let them move unpredictably, since nothing but death will still the beat of the heart or keep the universe from its perpetual motion.

It is not badness, it is the absence of goodness, which, in Art as in Life, is so depressing.

Generalizations, one is told, are dangerous. So is life, for that matter, and it is built up on generalization - from the earliest effort of the adventurer who dared to eat a second berry because the first had not killed him.

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