People who leave their own time out of their work cannot be surprised if their time fails to find them interesting.

There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see.

I hold that when a person dies / His soul returns again to earth; / Arrayed in some new flesh disguise / Another mother gives him birth / With sturdier limbs and brighter brain.

I have seen dawn and sunset on moors and windy hills Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain.

It ought to have gangsters, and aeroplanes and a lot of automatic pistols.

Man's body is faulty, his mind untrustworthy, but his imagination has made him remarkable.

It is too maddening. I've got to fly off, right now, to some devilish navy yard, 3 hours in a seasick steamer, & after being heartily sick, I'll have to speak 3 times, & then be sick coming home. Still, who would not be sick for England?