It is to the eccentrics that the world owes most of its knowledge.

The poet has to make a synthesis out of the moral life of our time, and this life is lived at this moment on a political plane.

Take my camel, dear,' said my aunt Dot, climbing down from that animal on her return from high Mass.

At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.

Many persons read and like fiction. It does not tax the intelligence and the intelligence of most of us can so ill afford taxation that we rightly welcome any reading matter which avoids this.

The superior thing ... was to be late. Lateness showed that serene contempt for the illusion we call time which is so necessary to ensure the respect of others and oneself. Only the servile are punctual.

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.