The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore.
The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.
Some people read for instruction, which is praiseworthy, and some for pleasure, which is innocent, but not a few read from habit, and I suppose that is neither innocent nor praiseworthy. Of that lamen...
Philip had a practical outlook and he grew impatient with the theories which resulted in no action.
My instinct told me I'd be silly to fall in love with him, you know women are very unfortunate, so often when they fall in love they cease to be lovable, and I made up my mind to be on my guard.
Kant thought things, not because they were true, but because he was Kant.
It is not very comfortable to have the gift of being amused at one's own absurdity.
It is hard that a man's exterior should tally so little sometimes with his soul.
I'd sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours.
I used to listen to the monks repeating the Lord's Prayer; I wondered how they could continue to pray without misgiving to their heavenly father to give them their daily bread. Do children beseech the...
I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the mu...
I did not pay much attention, and since it seemed to prolong itself I began to meditate upon the writer’s life. It is full of tribulation. First he must endure poverty and the world’s indifference; th...
Gray's conversation was composed of cliches. However shopworn, he uttered them with an obvious conviction that he was the first person to think of them. He never went to bed, but hit the hay, where he...
Books can’t matter much if their authors themselves don’t think they matter.
A virtue that only causes havoc and unhappiness is worth nothing. You can call it virtue if you like. I call it cowardice.
To eat well in England you should have breakfast three times a day.
I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp.
Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.