A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.

Earth, receive an honored guest; William Yeats is laid to rest. Let the Irish vessel lie Emptied of its poetry.

Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow.

Why doesn't the United States take over the monarchy and unite with England? England does have important assets. Naturally the longer you wait, the more they will dwindle. At least you could use it for a summer resort instead of Maine.

Words have no word for words that are not true.

A writer is a maker, not a man of action: his private life is of no concern to anybody but himself, his family and his friends.

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.