Do not believe those persons who say they have never been jealous. What they mean is that they have never been in love.
A bad memory is the mother of invention.
When I write a page that reads badly I know that it is myself who has written it. When it reads well it has come through from somewhere else.
The only test of work of literature is that it shall please other ages than its own.
Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.
The cliché is dead poetry. English, being the language of an imaginative race, abounds in clichés, so that English literature is always in danger of being poisoned by its own secretions.