Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.

The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.

Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.

A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realisation of Utopias.

I never play cricket. It requires one to assume such indecent postures.

It is better to repent a sin than regret the loss of a pleasure.

It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.