Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.

Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.

One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.

Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed to the West.