It is seldom that the imagination is disappointed in the 'ancestral piles' of England.

If you can't get the very best in this world, take nothing.

when I am alone in the forest I always say my prayers; and that occasional solitary communion with God is surely the only true religion for intelligent beings.

The only real rival of love is Art, for that in itself is a deep personal passion, its function an act of creation, fed by some mysterious perversion of sex, and demanding all the imagination's activities.

A little superstition is a good thing to keep in one's bag of precautions.

fiction is not only the historian of life but its apologist.

power, after it has ceased from troubling, is the dominant passion in human nature.