I have been in the scholastic profession long enough to know that nobody enters it unless he has some very good reason that he is anxious to conceal.

The anguished suspense of watching the lips you hunger for, framing the words, the death sentence, of sheer triteness!

Here I am,' I thought, 'back from the jungle, back from the ruins. Here, where wealth is no longer gorgeous and power has no dignity.

I read the newspapers with lively interest. It is seldom that they are absolutely, point-blank wrong. That is the popular belief, but those who are in the know can usually discern an embryo of truth, a little grit of fact, like the core of a pearl, round which have been deposited the delicate layers of ornament.

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.

The great charm in argument is really finding one's own opinions, not other people's.

It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one's youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates marking one's stature on the edge of the door.