“The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.”

“To whom it may concern: the present writer, at any rate, is neither a Hindu nor a nationalist.”

“The qualities of a second-rate writer can easily be defined, but a first-rate writer can only be experienced. It is just the thing in him which escapes analysis that makes him first-rate.”

“A few first rate research papers are preferable to a large number that are poorly conceived or half-finished. The latter are no credit to their writers and a waste of time to their readers.”

“Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.”

“One thing is sure – we have to transform the three-dimensional world of objects into the two-dimensional world of the canvas... To transform three into two dimensions is for me an experience full of magic in which I glimpse for a moment that fourth dimension which my whole being is seeking.”

“I cannot imagine the Labour Party coming into power without a first-rate financial crisis. That is why we ask for full emergency measures.”

“Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.”

“Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling.”

“That Vulcan gave arrows unto Apollo and Diana the fourth day after their Nativities, according to Gentile Theology, may pass for no blind apprehension of the Creation of the Sun and Moon, in the work of the fourth day.”