There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.

I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.

To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.

...he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.

All roads lead to Rome, and there were times when it might have struck us that almost every branch of study or subject of conversation skirted forbidden ground.

However British you may be, I am more British still.

I ought to tell you that I'm probably your cousin.