The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

It was unbearable, and he thought again, 'How unhappy I am!' and became happier.

An efficiency-regime cannot be run without a few heroes stuck about it to carry off the dullness - much as plums have to be put into bad pudding to make it palatable.

Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is a pity that Man cannot be at the same time impressive and truthful.

Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden. It is the best evidence we can have of our dignity.

The sun was already declining and each of the trees held a premonition of night.