“It has the permanent quality of literature.”
“Wilde's permanent celebrity belongs to literature, and only his transient notoriety to police news.”
“The idea that reading is a moral quality has unhappily led many conscientious persons to renounce their innocuous dalliance with light literature for more strenuous intercourse. These are the persons who "make it a rule to read.”
“In Geo-Politics, a nation has no permanent allies or permanent enemies, only permanent interests.”
“A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.”
“The quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead.”