An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight.

Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.

I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.

I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.

From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.

Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out.

All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.

When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.

Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else.

Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.

Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.

Money gives me pleasure all the time.