Its theme-- the operation of divine grace on a group of diverse but closely connected characters-- was perhaps presumptuously large, but I make no apology for it.

The languor of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost!

I [had] added another small piece to the pages of the atlas that were real to me.

Medical science has oppressed us with a new huge burden of longevity. It is in that last undesired decade, when passion is cold, appetites feeble, curiosity dulled and experience has begotten cynicism, that accidia lies in wait as the final temptation to destruction.

There is practically no sense that is not violated every time we return from the country or the sea to Paris or London or New York.

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.

There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances.