 Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead. |
| One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge. |
| There is nothing that makes us feel so good as the idea that someone else is an evil-doer. |
| Almost any game with any ball is a good game. |
| Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with. |
| Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long. Topics: Friendship |
| Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen. |
| Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left. |
| It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering. |
| There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas; there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas. |
| Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve. |
| Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them. |
| I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear. |
