Failure or success seems to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is the wriggle.

Why children?' he asked. 'Why always children? For love to end where it begins is far more beautiful, and Nature knows it.

Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.

I'm a holy man minus the holiness. Hand that on to your three spies, and tell them to put it in their pipes.

Pity wraps the student of the past in an ambrosial cloud, and washes his limbs with eternal youth.

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

I have almost completed a long novel, but it is unpublishable until my death and England's.