What is true, is true only for one time and only for one place.

Home is where one starts from.

We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.

As we grow older, the world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated of dead and living.

When a Cat adopts you, and I am not superstitious at all I don't mean only Black cats there is nothing to be done about it except to put up with it and wait until the wind changes.

The overwhelming pressure of mediocrity, sluggish and indomitable as a glacier, will mitigate the most violent, and depress the most exalted revolution.

Someone said, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know.