People love to talk but hate to listen. You can listen like a blank wall or like a splendid auditorium where every sound comes back fuller and richer.

Men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this . . .

"And now too late, we see these things are one:
The art is sacrifice and self-control
And who loves beauty must be stern of soul."

In a world where England is finished and dead:
I do not wish to live.

"If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends -- you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue."