Beauty and the lust for learning have yet to be allied.
It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.
Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls.
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.
A quiet city is a contradiction in terms. It is a thing uncanny, spectral.
To destroy is still the strongest instinct of our nature.