Our deeds attach themselves to us like the flame to phosphorus. They constitute our brilliance, to be sure, but only in so far as they consume us.
No nice men are good at getting taxis.
Filing is concerned with the past; anything you actually need to see again has to do with the future.
The case against censoring anything is absolute:. . . nothing that could be censored can be so bad in its effects, in the long run, as censorship itself.
[On the English climate:] People get a bad impression of it by continually trying to treat it as if it was a bank clerk, who ought to be on time on Tuesday next, instead of philosophically seeing it as a painter, who may do anything so long as you don't try to predict what.
From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.
It beats me how Freud could say "What do women want?" as if we all must want the same thing.
I would teach U. K. parents how to stop their children throwing litter. London is a beautiful city but its streets are disgusting.
Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.
That is the key of this collection, being yourself. Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way to live.
I expect photographs to find me. I never thought of looking for them. I instinctively put them there. My intellect had nothing to do with it.