The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

The only defensible war is a war of defense.

I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.

For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.

Always be comic in a tragedy. What the deuce else can you do?

Though the academic authorities are actually proud of conducting everything by means of Examinations, they seldom indulge in what religious people used to descibe as Self-Examination. The consequence is that the modern State has educated its citizens in a series of ephemeral fads.

I always like a dog so long as he isn't spelled backward.