If you do things merely because you think some other fool expects you to do them, and he expects you to do them because he thinks you expect him to expect you to do them, it will end in everybody doing what nobody wants to do, which is in my opinion a silly state of things.

The philosopher is Nature's pilot.

Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

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

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

My friend, when a man has anything to tell in this world, the difficulty is not to make him tell it, but to prevent him from telling it too often.