The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.

She must be assured that it is not a criminal offense to love at first sight.

It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.

Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.

Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.

One minute. You know nothing about him. He probably has his own joys and interests- wife, children, snug little home. That's where we practical fellows'- he smiled-'are more tolerant than you intellectuals. We live and let live, and assume that things are jogging on fairly well elsewhere, and that the ordinary plain man may be trusted to look after his own affairs.

Ulysses ... is a dogged attempt to cover the universe with mud, an inverted Victorianism, an attempt to make crossness and dirt succeed where sweetness and light failed, a simplification of the human character in the interests of Hell.