Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.

I know nothing, except what everyone knows - if there when Grace dances, I should dance.

A poet must never make a statement simply because it is sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true.

The commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience.

God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich.

Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his. If it were his beauty that enthralled him, he would be set free in a few years by its fading.

When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.