My only policy is to profess evil and do good.

God help England if she had no Scots to think for her.

Rebecca [West] can handle a pen as brilliantly as ever I could and much more savagely.

If parents would only realize how they bore their children.

Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.

What right has any human being to talk of bringing up a child? You do not bring up a tree or a plant. It brings itself up. You have to give it a fair chance by tilling the soil.