The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is in fact a return to the idealized past.
Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known people who have actually read all, or almost all, the guaranteed Hundred Best...
The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task.
Love affairs are for emotional sprinters the pleasures of love are for the emotional marathoners.
Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy...
Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.
The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.
As a general thing people marry most happily with their own kind. The trouble lies in the fact that people usually marry at an age when they do not really know what their own kind is.
The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring.
The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that de...
A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart.