First-class travel, provided one hasn't to pay for it oneself, is the most insidiously addictive of life's luxuries..

Perhaps it's only when people are dead that we can safely show how much we cared about them. We know that it's too late then for them to do anything ….

What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give..

Charm is often despised but I can never see why. No one has it who isn't capable of genuinely liking others, at least at the actual moment of meeting….

you'd like the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. That must be the most futile oath anyone ever swears..

Metaphysical speculation is about as pointless as a discussion on the meaning of one's lungs. They're for breathing..

I am fifty years old and I have never known what it is to love. I can write those words, know them to be true, but feel only the regret that a tone-d….

For me, the dead remain dead. If I couldn't believe that, I don't think I could go on living..

I wonder if childhood is ever really happy. Just as well, perhaps. To be blissfully happy so young would leave one always seeking to recapture the un….

We are often more merciful to our animals than we are to each other..

If from infancy you treat children as gods, they are liable in adulthood to act as devils..

Murder is the unique crime, the only one for which we can never make reparation to the victim..

I knew the facts of death before I knew the facts of life. There never was a time when I didn't see the skull beneath the skin..

A man who lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable with death. There is more violence in an English hedgerow than in the meanest st….

we can forgive anything as long as it isn't done to us..

A letter is paradoxically the most revealing and the most deceptive of confessional revelations. We all have our inconsistencies, prejudices, irratio….

If you are proposing to commit a sin it is as well to commit it with intelligence. Otherwise you are insulting God as well as defying Him, don't you ….

Generosity is a virtue for individuals, not governments. When governments are generous it is with other people’s money, other people’s safety, other ….