if you'd ever had a grown-up daughter you'd know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes on inside her - well, it's much better to pretend you're the simple, innocent old fool she almost certainly takes you for.

The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore.

For my part I cannot believe in a God who is angry with me because I do not believe in him. I cannot believe in a God who is less tolerant than I. I cannot believe in a God who has neither humour nor common sense.

It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.

By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has long since left him.

I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

if you'd ever had a grown-up daughter you'd know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes on inside her - well, it's much better to pretend you're the simple, innocent old fool she almost certainly takes you for.