What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.

The "second sight" possessed by the Highlanders in Scotland is actually a foreknowledge of future events. I believe they possess this gift because they don't wear trousers.

Many intelligent people, when about to write . . . , force on their minds a certain notion about style, just as they screw up their faces when they sit for their portraits.

Most men of education are more superstitious than they admit - nay, than they think.

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

Just as there are polysyllabic words that say very little, so there are also monosyllabic words of infinite meaning.

The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.