The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.

My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.

It's the circumstances of popular monarchy, the manner in which it's developed, and it is also the fault of the people who present her with this unquestioning adulation. In other words, it's their lack of a larger faith. Which makes them fasten onto, a purely earthly symbol.

The great advantage of the sort of education I had was precisely that it made practically no mark upon those subjected to it.

It has to be admitted that we English have sex on the brain, which is a very unsatisfactory place to have it.

Like a prisoner awaiting his release, like a schoolboy when the end of term is near, like a migrant bird ready to fly south ... I long to be gone.

Travel, of course, narrows the mind.