The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.

The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.

The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.

The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.

The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.

Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose.

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.

There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.