The most valuable book we can read, about countries we have visited, is that which recalls to us something that we did notice, but did not notice that we noticed.

And it did for one wild moment cross my mind that, perhaps, those might not be the very best judges of the relation of religion to happiness who, by their own account, had neither one nor the other.

The highest and noblest thing that history can be is a good story.

We talk of wild animals, but the wildest animal is man.

You don't want to be so open minded that your brains fall out!

Free verse'? You may as well call sleeping in a ditch 'free architecture'.

The more truly we can see life as a fairytale, the more clearly the tale resolves itself into war with the dragon who is wasting fairyland.