The very utterness of the crash and ruin, the desperation of the case, might be its hope. On ruins one can begin to build. Anyhow, looking out from r….

Traveling together is a great test, which has damaged many friendships and even honeymoons, and some people such as [Thomas] Gray and Horace Walpole,….

A hot bath! How exquisite a vespertine pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigours, the austerities, the renunciations….

Behavior of such cunning cruelty that only a human being could have thought of or contrived it we call 'inhuman,' revealing thus some pathetic ideal ….

It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them..

Atheism was natural enough, but heresy seemed strange. For, surely, if one could believe anything, one could believe everything..

Human passions against eternal laws -- that is the everlasting conflict..

Life, for all its agonies...is exciting and beautiful, amusing and artful and endearing...and whatever is to come after it -- we shall not have this ….

The impulse to ask questions is among the more primitive human lusts..

The last sin, the sin against the Holy Ghost - to lie to oneself. Lying to other people - that's a small thing in comparison..

I seldom meet actors, they are to me bright strange fishes swimming in an element alien to me; I feel that to meet them is to See Life..

The great and recurrent question about Abroad is, is it worth the trouble of getting there?.

The superior thing ... was to be late. Lateness showed that serene contempt for the illusion we call time which is so necessary to ensure the respect….

One day I shall write a little book of conduct myself, and I shall call it Social Problems of the Unsociable. And the root problem, beneath a hundred….

Only one hour in the normal day is more pleasurable than the hour spent in bed with a book before going to sleep, and that is the hour spent in bed w….

Decades have a delusive edge to them. They are not, of course, really periods at all, except as any other ten years may be. But we, looking at them, ….

Parents are untamed, excessive, potentially troublesome creatures; charming to be with for a time, in the main they must lead their own lives, indepe….

So they left the subject and played croquet, which is a very good game for people who are annoyed with one another, giving many opportunities for ven….

Giving is not at all interesting; but receiving is, there is no doubt about it, delightful..

You should always believe what you read in the newspapers, for that makes them more interesting..

Never approach a friend's wife or girlfriend with mischief as your goal... unless she's really attractive..