It is the chief value of legend to mix up the centuries while preserving the sentiment.

The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable one. The trouble is that it is nearly reasonable, but not quite.

If a rhinoceros were to enter this restaurant now, there is no denying he would have great power here. But I should be the first to rise and assure him that he had no authority whatever.

When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.

To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not sure about being quiet.

The original quality in any man of imagination is imagery.

Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.