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View Quote One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

View Quote Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.

View Quote Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come into their kingdom.

View Quote Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases.

View Quote Saints are simply men and women who have fulfilled their natural obligation which is to approach God.

View Quote The human mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with a similar energy.

View Quote The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up.

View Quote There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances.

View Quote We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.

View Quote What a man enjoys about a woman's clothes are his fantasies of how she would look without them.

View Quote What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?

View Quote When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.

View Quote Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.

View Quote Your action, and your action alone, determines your worth. Johann Gottlieb Fichte in The Vocation of Man [Die Bestimmung des Menschen] (1800), p. 94 : "You are here, not for idle contemplation of yourself, not for brooding over devout sensations — no, for action you are here; action, and action alone, determines your worth."

View Quote Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction. Simone Weil, in The Pre-War Notebook (1933-1939), published in First and Last Notebooks (1970) edited by Richard Rees