Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

[On spiritualism:] I always knew the living talked rot, but it's nothing to the rot the dead talk.

The first element of greatness is fundamental humbleness (this should not be confused with servility); the second is freedom from self; the third is intrepid courage, which, taken in its widest interpretation, generally goes with truth; and the fourth-the power of love-although I have put it last, is the rarest.

Convictions no doubt have to be modified or expanded to meet changing conditions but ... to be a reliable political leader sooner or later your anchors must hold fast where other men's drag.

If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.

He's very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head.

I do not say I was ever what I would call "plain," but I have the sort of face that bores me when I see it on other people.