No one is more triumphant than the man who chooses a worthy subject and masters all its facts.

They had nothing in common but the English language.

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.

Italy and London are the only places where I don't feel to exist on sufferance.

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.

There was something better in life than this rub­bish, if only he could get to it—love—nobility—big spaces where passion clasped peace, spaces no science could reach, but they existed for ever, full of woods some of them, and arched with majestic sky and a friend. . .

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