I always entertain great hopes....

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long and the age of the great epics is past.