Free verse is like free love; it is a contradiction in terms.

Joy, which was the small publicity of the pagan, is the gigantic secret of the Christian.

Freethinkers are occasionally thoughtful, though never free.

Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.

This is, first and last, the real value of Christmas; in so far as the mythology remains at all it is a kind of happy mythology. Personally, of course, I believe in Santa Claus; but it is the season of forgiveness, and I will forgive others for not doing so.

The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

Grey is a colour that always seems on the eve of changing to some other colour.