Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be: am an attendant lord, one that will do to swell a progress, start a scene or two, advise the prince.

I suspect that in our loathing of totalitarianism, there is infused a good deal of admiration for its efficiency.

O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.

The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence

I am glad you have a Cat, but I do not believe it is So remarkable a cat as My Cat.

Composing on the typewriter, I find that I am sloughing off all my long sentences which I used to dote upon. Short, staccato, like modern French prose. The typewriter makes for lucidity, but I am not sure that it encourages subtlety.