Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.

If only the sense of actuality can be lulled-and it sleeps for ever in most historians-there is no passion that cannot be gratified in the past.

Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed to the West.

Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.

England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.

You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish - not sit intending on a chair.

Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.