Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things.

Whatever else may be said of man, this one thing is clear: He is not what he is capable of being.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

It is one thing to describe an interview with a gorgon or a griffin, a creature who does not exist. It is another thing to discover that the rhinoceros does exist and then take pleasure in the fact that he looks as if he didn't.

Cleanliness is not next to godliness nowadays, for cleanliness is made an essential and godliness is regarded as an offence.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

I am a bad reporter because everything seems to me worth reporting; and a bad reviewer because every sentence in every book suggests a separate essay.