Here be dragons to be slain, here be rich rewards to gain; If we perish in the seeking, why, how small a thing is death!

Nothing is more vulgar than a careful avoidance of beginning a letter with the first person singular.

Variety, individuality, peculiarity, eccentricity and indeed crankiness are agreeable to the British mind; they make life more interesting.

the autobiography is at one and the same time a single element in the series of the writer's created works and an interpretation of the whole series.

The business of the artist is not to escape from his material medium or bully it, but to serve it; but to serve it, he must love it. If he does so, he will realise that in its service is perfect freedom.

No, no, there must be a limit to the baseness even of publishers.

We are much too much inclined in these days to divide people into permanent categories, forgetting that a category only exists for its special purpose and must be forgotten as soon as that purpose is served.