Most men, whether men or women, wish above all else to be comfortable, and thought is a pre-eminently uncomfortable process; it brings to the individual far more suffering than happiness in a semi-civilised world which still goes to war.

It never seems to occur to anybody that some women may not want to find husbands.

most of us have to be self-righteous before we can be righteous.

Few of humanity's characteristics are more disconcerting than its ability to reduce world-events to its own level, wherever this may happen to be.

An author who waits for the right 'mood' will soon find that 'moods' get fewer and fewer until they cease altogether.

We should never be at the mercy of Providence if only we understood that we ourselves are Providence.

The tragedy of journalism lies in its impermanence; the very topicality which gives it brilliance condemns it to an early death. Too often it is a process of flinging bright balloons in the path of the hurricane, a casting of priceless petals upon the rushing surface of a stream.