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

My law-givers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul.

Humility is a quality for which I have only a limited admiration. In many phases of life it is a great mistake and degenerates into defensiveness or hypocrisy.

The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.

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.

They go forth [into the world] with well-developed bodies, fairly developed minds and undeveloped hearts. An undeveloped heart - not a cold one. The difference is important.

One's favorite book is as elusive as one's favorite pudding.