The peasants of Sicily, who have kept their own wheat and make their own natural brown bread, ah, it is amazing how fresh and sweet and clean their loaf seems, so perfumed, as home-made bread used all to be before the war.

A museum is not a first-hand contact: it is an illustrated lecture. And what one wants is the actual vital touch.

That which one cannot experience in daily life is not true for oneself.

When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in such lovely language.

I know the greatness of Christianity; it is a past greatness.. I live in 1924, and the Christian venture is done.

The novel is a perfect medium for revealing to us the changing rainbow of our living relationships. The novel can help us to live,as nothing else can: no didactic Scripture, anyhow. If the novelist keeps his thumb out of the pan.

Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.