We should all live as if we were never going to die, for it is the deaths of our friends that hurt us, not our own.
Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.
Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.
The only test of work of literature is that it shall please other ages than its own.
Marriage is an arrangement by which two people start by getting the best out of each other and often end by getting the worst.
The cliché is dead poetry. English, being the language of an imaginative race, abounds in clichés, so that English literature is always in danger of being poisoned by its own secretions.