If there really is such a thing as turning in one's grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise.

If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself. You must know all the while that it is there, but until it is needed you must never let it emerge into your consciousness in any shape that can be given a name.

Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to take the necessary trouble.

...every human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all failures.

Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful.

If he thinks he floats off the floor, and if I simultaneously think I see him do it, then the thing happens.

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing