The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.

There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Of course we all know that Morris was a wonderful all-round man, but the act of walking round him has always tired me.

Somehow, our sense of justice never turns in its sleep till long after the sense of injustice in others has been thoroughly aroused.

Strange when you come to think of it, that of all countless folk who have lived on this planet, not one is known in history or in legend as having died of laughter.

Pessimism does win us great happy moments.

By its very looseness, by its way of evoking rather than defining, suggesting rather than saying, English is a magnificent vehicle for emotional poetry.