The more one has seen of the good, the more one asks for the better.

The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.

The more one has seen of the good, the more one asks for the better.

Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

What a man is is the basis owhat he dreams and thinks, accepts and rejects, feels and perceives.

A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.

God spare me sclerosis of the curiosity, for the curiosity which craves to keep us informed about the small things no less than the large is the mainspring, the dynamo, the jet propulsion of all complete living.