The women we really love are the women who complete us, who have the qualities we can borrow and so become something nearer to whole men. Just as we ….

The attributes of God have been carefully explored. But the Devil's attributes have been left vague. I think I've found one of them. It is he who put….

Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt..

He types his labored column - weary drudge! Senile fudge and solemn: spare, editor, to condemn these dry leaves of his autumn..

In a government like ours, the Crown is the abiding and unshakable element in government; politicians may come and go, but the Crown remains and cert….

Secrets are the blood of life. Every big thing is a secret, even when you know it, because you never know all of it. If you can know everything about….

What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us..

It seemed to me as if the stones sang, in the strangest voices, in the language of Ultima Thule..

If I had to describe my remarks this evening frankly as if I were in police court and on oath, so to speak I should have to call it a ramble over sev….

Oho, now I know what you are. You are an advocate of Useful Knowledge.... Well, allow me to introduce myself to you as an advocate of Ornamental Know….

The Alexander Technique keeps the body alive, at ages when many people have resigned themselves to irreversible decline..

Clarity is not a characteristic of the human spirit..

The division between art and deviousness and crime is sometimes as thin as a cigarette paper..

The little boy nodded at the peony and the peony seemed to nod back. The little boy was neat, clean and pretty. The peony was unchaste, dishevelled a….

To ask an author who hopes to be a serious writer if his work is autobiographical is like asking a spider where he buys his thread. The spider gets h….

Too much traffic with a quotation book begets a conviction of ignorance in a sensitive reader. Not only is there a mass of quotable stuff he never qu….

here are some homosexuals whom we would do well to take seriously..

The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring..

Energy and curiosity are the lifeblood of universities; the desire to find out, to uncover, to dig deeper, to puzzle out obscurities, is the spirit o….

When one is traveling, one must expect to spend a certain amount of money foolishly..

A great many complimentary things have been said about the faculty of memory, and if you look in a good quotation book you will find them neatly arra….