A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke

He [P.G.Wodehouse] is I believe, the only man living who speaks with equal fluency the American and English languages.

The real guarantee of freedom is an equilibrium of social forces in conflict, not the triumph of any one force.

Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.

There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of pleasure.

People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.

There is truth in the high opinion that in so far as a man conforms, he ceases to exist.