As a leader, you will never get ahead until your people are behind you.
I've always thought that very few people grow old as admirably as academics. At least books never let them down.
There are some people who cannot get onto a train without imagining that they are about to voyage into the significant unknown; as though the notion of movement were inseparably connected with the notion of discovery, as though each displacement of the body were a displacement of the soul.
I need words and print. . . I need print like an addict. I could live without it, perhaps. But I hope I never have to try.
I used to be a reasonably careless and adventurous person before I had children; now I am morbidly obsessed by seat-belts and constantly afraid that low-flying aircraft will drop on my children's school.
London, how could one ever be tired of it?
You have to be careful what you imagine, because the act of imagining is the act of encouraging yourself to be a certain kind of person.
Humans are potentially capable of living in a state of consciousness compared to which normal wakefulness is like sleeping or dreaming.
I like classical music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and I adore Bach above all.
Women are already born so far ahead ability-wise. The day men can give birth, that's when we can start talking about equal rights.
The learned languages are indispensable to form the gentleman and the scholar, and are well worth all the labor that they have cost us, provided they are valued not for themselves alone, which would make a pedant, but as a foundation for further acquirements.