The Canadian is often a baffled man because he feels different from his British kindred and his American neighbours, sharply refused to be lumped together with either of them, yet cannot make plain his difference.

There can be no doubt that smoking nowadays is largely a miserable automatic business. People use tobacco without ever taking an intelligent interest in it. They do not experiment, compare, fit the tobacco to the occasion. A man should always be pleasantly conscious of the fact that he is smoking.

A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.

If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.

To love to teach is one thing, to love those you teach is another.

A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong with this fellow.

One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.