So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.

Reformers who are obsessed with purity and cannot see that their obsession is impure.

Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.

While her lips talked culture, her heart was planning to invite him to tea

There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.

The sort of poetry I seek only resides in objects Man can't touch - like England 's grass network of lanes 100 years ago, but today he can destroy them and only Lord Farrer keeps him from doing it.

I think you’re beautiful, the only beautiful person I’ve ever seen. I love your voice and everything to do with you, down to your clothes or the room you are sitting in. I adore you.