Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence.

Very often when I am introduced to women, I think, What is she really like behind the disguise which she wears? And very often I discover that she is pleasant enough, and probably would expand and glow if she received enough affection.

The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man.

Female beauty is an important Minor Sacrament which cannot be received too often; I am not at all sure that neglect of it does not constitute a sin of some kind.

The division between art and deviousness and crime is sometimes as thin as a cigarette paper.

I would not for a moment have you suppose that I am one of those idiots who scorns Science, merely because it is always twisting and turning, and sometimes shedding its skin, like the serpent that is [the doctors'] symbol.

Some countries you love. Some countries you hate. Canada is a country you worry about.