The sound body is the product of the sound mind.

Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.

Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession.

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

If you can say a thing with one stroke, unanswerably you have style; if not, you are at best a marchande de plaisir; a decorative litt

Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.

Get married, but never to a man who is home all day.