It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

Who is that man over there? I don't know him. What is he doing? Is he a conspirator? Have you searched him? Give him till tomorrow to confess, then hang him! -- hang him!

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

A burnt child loves the fire.

Oh, he occasionally takes an alcoholiday.

A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that can appreciate a work of art.

Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching.