Correctitude implies nowadays a formal or fastidious use of words; and what is wanted is not so much the correct as the living use of words. It is the memory of the meaning of a word which is the life of the word.

The big corporation is not in the least remarkable for efficiency; it is only too big to be blamed for its inefficiency.

When a person has found something which he prefers to life itself, he for the first time has begun to live.

One pleasure attached to growing older is that many things seem to be growing younger; growing fresher and more lively than we once supposed them to be.

I believe your own accent is inimitable, though I shall practice it in my bath.

We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.

It is because artists do not practise, patrons do not patronize, crowds do not assemble to reverently worship the great work of Doing Nothing, that the world has lost its philosophy and even failed to invent a new religion.