Mozart is everyone's tea, pleasing to highbrows, middlebrows and lowbrows alike, though they probably all get different kinds of pleasure from him.

Human passions against eternal laws -- that is the everlasting conflict.

Here is one of the points about this planet which should be remembered; into every penetrable corner of it, and into most of the impenetrable corners, the English will penetrate. They are like that; born invaders. They cannot stay at home.

God very seldom succeeds. He has very nearly everything against him, of course.

As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals -- or, indeed, why it should be an ideal at all.

Life, for all its agonies...is exciting and beautiful, amusing and artful and endearing...and whatever is to come after it -- we shall not have this life again.

Nothing, perhaps, is strange, once you have accepted life itself, the great strange business which includes all lesser strangeness.