Women tell men things that men are not very likely to find out for themselves..

Love affairs are for emotional sprinters; the pleasures of love are for the emotional marathoners..

We live in a world where bulk is equated with quality..

If you don't hurry up and let life know what you want, life will damned soon show you what you'll get..

The great charm of cats is their rampant egotism, their devil-may-care attitude toward responsibility, their disinclination to earn an honest dollar..

I do not 'get' ideas; ideas get me.

The clerisy are those who seek, and find, delight and enlargement of life in books. The clerisy are those for whom reading is a personal art..

Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their t….

And I say to you that if you bring curiosity to your work it will cease to be merely a job and become a door through which you enter the best that li….

We tend to think human knowledge as progressive; because we know more and more, our parents and grandparents are back numbers. But a contrary theory ….

Art is always at peril in universities, where there are so many people, young and old, who love art less than argument, and dote upon a text that pro….

They [say] everybody's creative. Well, everybody is. But any real creativity has to rest on a basis of an acquired technique and an acquired knowledg….

All art is holy. Not that it is all long-faced and miserable; it can be wild and wooly. But if it transforms you, it is art. And it is holy..

Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion sug….

The Victorians have been immoderately praised, and immoderately blamed, and surely it is time we formed some reasonable picture of them? There was th….

Some countries you love. Some countries you hate. Canada is a country you worry about..

Although there may be nothing new under the sun, what is old is new to us and so rich and astonishing that we never tire of it. If we do tire of it, ….

If you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness..

Canada, having few indigenous prejudices, has been compelled to import them from elsewhere, duty-free, and it is the rare Canadian who is not shaken,….

Moderation, the Golden Mean, the Aristonmetron, is the secret of wisdom and of happiness. But it does not mean embracing an unadventurous mediocrity;….

I think a lot of people have unreasonable expectations because they never stop to consider what life actually has to offer them. They're always looki….