Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them..

Women always think that if they tell a man not to be pompous that will shut him up, but I am an old hand at that game. I know that if a man bides his….

Nothing grows old-fashioned so fast as modernity..

There can be no doubt that Samuel Marchbanks is one of the choice and master spirits of this age. If there were such a volume as Who Really Ought To ….

Very few [doctors] are men of science in any very serious sense; they're men of technique..

Canada is not really a place where you are encouraged to have large spiritual adventures..

Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion..

Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it..

Never harbor grudges; they sour your stomach and do no harm to anyone else..

The result of a single action may spread like the circles that expand when a stone is thrown into a pond, until they touch places and people unguesse….

Boredom and stupidity and patriotism, especially when combined, are three of the greatest evils of the world we live in..

A Library goes on as far as thought can reach..

There is more to marriage than four bare legs under a blanket..

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend..

The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced the writer..

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity..

Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence..

I think we should see whether we are wise trying to educate everybody to a high standard the way we are trying to do now. There has to be a high leve….

No, it's the musicians and I must say they are an accomplished bunch, but odd, as musicians tend to be. Is it the vibration from their instruments, d….

I saw corpses, and grew used to their unimportant look, for a dead man without any of the panoply of death is a desperately insignificant object..

The young are often accused of exaggerating their troubles; they do so, very often, in the hope of making some impression upon the inertia and the im….