I suppose one gets to know men quickest by the things they take for granted.

Where two Greeks are gathered together, there will be at least three political parties represented, and possibly more.

the difficult art I was attempting had, indeed a powerful fascination, before which the past faded, the future receded, and the whole of experience narrowed down to this stretch of glancing, glimmering water, and the fly I was trying to cast across it.

Have you ever thought, when something dreadful happens, 'a moment ago things were not like this; let it be then, not now, anything but now'? And you try and try to remake then, but you know you can't. So you try to hold the moment quite still and not let it move on and show itself.

The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law.

The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.

Take love easy, as the leaves grow on the trees.