Over the tea-cups and in the square the tongue has its desire; Still waters run deep, my dear, there's never smoke without fire.

A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish.

Lay your sleeping head, my love, Human on my faithless arm.

Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.

Courses in prosody, rhetoric and comparative philology would be required of all students, and every student would have to select three courses out of courses in mathematics, natural history, geology, meteorology, archaeology, mythology, liturgics, cooking.

Weep for the lives your wishes never led.