A man has his distinctive personal scent which his wife, his children and his dog can recognize. A crowd has a generalized stink. The public is odorless.

Look if you like, but you will have to leap.

Attacking bad books is not only a waste of time but also bad for the character. If I find a book really bad, the only interest I can derive from writing about it has to come from myself, from such display of intelligence, wit and malice as I can contrive. One cannot review a bad book without showing off.

Doom is dark and deeper than any sea-dingle.

A vice in common can be the ground of a friendship but not a virtue in common. X and Y may be friends because they are both drunkards or womanizers but, if they are both sober and chaste, they are friends for some other reason.

To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?

The only reason the Protestants and Catholics have given up the idea of universal domination is because they've realised they can't get away with it.