To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life.

He remembered having said to his uncle (with a solemn dogmatism better befitting a much younger man): "Surely it is possible to love with the head as well as the heart." Mr. Delagardie had replied, somewhat drily: "No doubt; so long as you do not end by thinking with your entrails instead of your brain.

But if it ever occurs to people to value the honor of the mind equally with the honor of the body, we shall get a social revolution of a quite unparalleled sort — and very different from the kind that is being made at the moment.

Very dangerous things, theories.

There are times when one is tempted to say that the great, sprawling, lethargic sin of Sloth is the oldest and greatest of the sins and the parent of all the rest.

How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.

It's very inconvenient being a sculptor. It's like playing the double-bass; one's so handicapped by one's baggage.