I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

Our concern with history is a concern with preformed images already imprinted on our brains, images at which we keep staring while the truth lies elsewhere, away from it all, somewhere as yet undiscovered.

Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof. Especially seeing England presents thee with so many observables.

It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.

To set one's name to a work gives no one a title to be remembered, for who knows how many of the best of men have gone without a trace?

I don't belong to any country clubs. I don't have this big circle of friends. Where I make my friends is where I work.