War can so easily be gilt with romance and heroism and solemn national duty and patriotism and the like by persons whose superficial literary and oratorical talent covers an abyss of Godforsaken folly.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

We have in England a curious belief in first-rate people, meaning all the people we do not know; and this consoles us for the undeniable second-rateness of the people we do know.

In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

It is one of the mysterious ways of Allah to make women troublesome when he makes them beautiful.