Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases.

The most futile and disastrous day seems well spent when it is reviewed through the blue, fragrant smoke of a Havana Cigar.

There is an Easter sense in which all things are made new in the risen Christ. A tiny gleam of this is reflected in all true art.

It is no longer possible to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis upon which it is based.

If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be

These memories, which are my life--for we possess nothing certainly except the past--were always with me.

I felt that I was leaving part of myself behind, and that wherever I went afterwards I should feel the lack of it, and search for it hopelessly, as ghosts are said to do, frequenting the spots where they buried material treasures without which they cannot pay their way to the nether world.