It is pleasant to be transferred from an office where one is afraid of a sergeant-major into an office where one can intimidate generals, and perhaps this is why history is so attractive to the more timid among us. We can recover self-confidence by snubbing the dead.

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

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

Don't go fighting against the Spring.

I believe we shall come to care about people less and less, Helen. The more people one knows, the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London. I quite expect to end my life caring most for a place.

Are not beauty and delicacy the same?

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