Read widely and with discrimination. Bad writing is contagious.

Books of quotations ... afford me one of the most undemanding but satisfying forms of reading pleasure.

If from infancy you treat children as gods, they are liable in adulthood to act as devils.

A nation that can't remember its dead will soon cease to be worth dying for.

Any visitor to an historic country town or city quickly becomes aware in his or her peregrinations that the most attractive houses in the centre are invariably the offices of lawyers.

Feel, he told himself, feel, feel, feel. Even if what you feel is pain, only let yourself feel.

Metaphysical speculation is about as pointless as a discussion on the meaning of one's lungs. They're for breathing.