Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.

We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenient to lay it out anesthetized on the table with dates pasted on here and there, but what we know we know by ripples and spirals eddying out from us and from our own time.

As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, When the hot water gives out or goes tepid, So is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion, O my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady.

The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.

The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.

Usura slayeth the child in the womb It stayeth the young man's courting It hath brought palsey to bed, lyeth between the young bride and her bridegroom