I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.

I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.

As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.

Beginnings are always messy.

Essential characteristics of a gentleman: The will to put himself in the place of others; the horror of forcing others into positions from which he would himself recoil; and the power to do what seems to him to be right without considering what others may say or think.

He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.

The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.