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.

Thou shalt not answer questionnaires Or quizzes upon world affairs, Nor with compliance Take any test. Thou shalt not sit with statisticians nor commit A social science.

Though one cannot always Remember exactly why one has been happy, There is no forgetting that one was.

The eye likes novelty, but the ear craves familiarity.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

The parlour cars and Pullmans are packed also with scented assassins, salad-eaters who murder on milk.

A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.