The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.

Books are the door of escape from the forest.

A writer's style reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacites, his bias...it is the Self escaping into the open.

Liberty is never out of bounds or off limits; it spreads wherever it can capture the imagination of men.

But real life is only one kind of life—there is also the life of the imagination.

When my wife's Aunt Caroline was in her nineties, she lived with us, and she once remarked: 'Remembrance is sufficient of the beauty we have seen.' I cherish the remembrance of the beauty I have seen. I cherish the grave, compulsive word.

Only a person who is congenially self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays