To most women art is a form of scandal.

To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.

They're a rotten crowd', I shouted across the lawn. 'You're worth the whole damn bunch put together.

The only way to increase it is to cultivate your own garden. And the only thing that will help you is poetry, which is the most concentrated form of style.... I don't care how clever the other professor is, one can't raise a discussion of modern prose to anything above tea-table level.

Then she added in a sort of childish delight: 'We'll be poor, won't we? Like people in books. And I'll be an orphan and utterly free. Free and poor! What fun!' She stopped and raised her lips to him in a delighted kiss. 'It's impossible to be both together,' said John grimly. 'People have found that out. And I should choose to be free as preferable of the two.

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

He dispensed starlight to casual moths.