 Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother. |
| I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation. |
| Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist. |
| What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature. |
| Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul. |
| At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely. |
| Writing is the supreme solace. |
| There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action. |
