Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. . . .

The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not say.

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

The Devil's walking parody; On all four-footed things.

The mind moves by instincts, associations and premonitions and not by fixed dates or completed processes. Action and reaction will occur simultaneously: or the cause actually be found after the effect. Errors will be resisted before they have been properly promulgated: notions will be first defined long after they are dead.

In real life the people who are most bigoted are the people who have no convictions at all.