Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.
Accuracy is the basis of style. Words dress our thoughts and should fit; and should fit not only in their utterances, but in their implications, their sequences, and their silences, just as in architecture the empty spaces are as important as those that are filled.
All our acts have sacramental possibilities.
An absolute condition of all successful living, whether for an individual or a nation, is the acceptance of death.
Constancy, far from being a virtue, seems often to be the besetting sin of the human race, daughter of laziness and self-sufficiency, sister of sleep, the cause of most wars and practically all persecutions.
Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.
Fair and unfair are among the most influential words in English and must be delicately used.
I dislike being an anvil for the hammering out of other people's virtues.
I do think we should be provided with a new body about the age of thirty or so when we have learnt to attend to it with consideration.
I have long come to believe that, more than any other destruction, our word-recklessness is endangering the future of us all.
I think that the worst unpleasantness of age is not its final fact... but the tediousness of preparation, the accumulating number of defeats.
In one form or another, conscious or unconscious, we have all become propagandists; integrity alone can keep us truthful.
It is a lean employment of time to brood on what might have happened along some other turning.
It is better to be passionate than to be tolerant at the expense of one's soul.
It is not badness, it is the absence of goodness, which, in Art as in Life, is so depressing.
Manners indeed are like the cypher in arithmetic- they may not be much in themselves, but they are capable of adding a great deal to the value of everything else.
On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light.
One has to resign oneself to being a nuisance if one wants to get anything done.
One life is an absurdly small allowance.
Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us.
Risk is the salt and sugar of life.
The art of advertising- untruthfulness combined with repetition.
The greatest of mythologies divided its gods into creators, preservers and destroyers. Tidiness obviously belongs to the second category, which mitigates the terrific impact of the other two.
The most ominous of fallacies- the belief that things can be kept static by inaction.
The only thing for a pacifist to do is to find a substitute for war.
The symbol is greater than visible substance... Unhappy the land that has no symbols, or that chooses their meaning without great care.
The world has become too full of many things, an over-furnished room.
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
There is generosity in giving, but gentleness in receiving.
Time is the sea in which men grow, are born, or die.
To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure.
Tolerance cannot afford to have anything to do with the fallacy that evil may convert itself to good.
Your real progressives are never fair: they are never sufficiently neutral.
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