The crime of suicide lies rather in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind.

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

You confuse what's important with what's impressive.

Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.

England still waits for the supreme moment of her literature--for the great poet who shall voice her, or, better still, for the thousand little poets whose voices shall pass into our common talk.

No one is more triumphant than the man who chooses a worthy subject and masters all its facts.

Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.