Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.
Such days of autumnal decline hold a strange mystery which adds to the gravity of all our moods.
After owning books, almost the next best thing is talking about them.
To believe everything is to be an imbecile. To deny everything is to be a fool.
Literature is the expression of society.
After the pleasure of possessing books there is hardly anything more pleasant than that of speaking of them, and of communicating to the public the innocent richness of thought which we have acquired by the culture of letters.
Our years, our debts, and our enemies are always more numerous than we imagine.
Golf is a game where white men can dress up as black pimps and get away with it.
Any good marriage involves a certain amount of play-acting.
To put a tempting face aside when duty demands every faculty is a lesson which takes most men longest to learn.
The higher the rank the less pretence, because there is less to pretend to.