Zuleika, on a desert island, would have spent most of her time in looking for a man's footprint.

Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.

The hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with it.

I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect, either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.

A man's work is rather the needful supplement to himself than the outcome of it.

I am a Tory anarchist. I should like everyone to go about doing just as he pleased - short of altering any of the things to which I have grown accustomed.

All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.