Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

When I ask for a water cress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.

Progress is the realization of utopia.

The unread is always better than the unreadable.

It is art, and art only, that reveals us to ourselves.

God knows; I won't be an Oxford don anyhow. I'll be a poet, a writer, a dramatist. Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious. Or perhaps I'll lead the life of pleasure for a time and then—who knows?—rest and do nothing. What does Plato say is the highest end that man can attain here below? To sit down and contemplate the good. Perhaps that will be the end of me too.

Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.