No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.

Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?

After a day of rain the sun came out suddenly at five o'clock and threw a golden bar into the deep Victorian gloom of the front parlour

Moderation has never yet engineered an explosion

Passion alone could destroy passion. All the thinking in the world could not make so much as a dent in its surface.

Theories have nothing to do with life.

There is a terrible loneliness in the spring.