The clerisy are those who seek, and find, delight and enlargement of life in books. The clerisy are those for whom reading is a personal art.

I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind... At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy and wise in spite of themselves.

You're all mad for words. Words are just farts from a lot of fools who have swallowed too many books. Give me things!

It is a waste of time to dissipate one's moral zeal in disapproving of royal persons who have mistresses.

The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.

The great charm of cats is their rampant egotism, their devil-may-care attitude toward responsibility, their disinclination to earn an honest dollar.

Whether you are really right or not doesn't matter; it's the belief that counts.