Pride consists in a man making his personality the only test, instead of making truth the test. The sceptic feels himself too large to measure life by the largest things; and ends by measuring it by the smallest thing of all.

The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.

Happiness is not only a hope, but also in some strange manner a memory ... we are all kings in exile.

But we are the people of England; and we have not spoken yet. Smile at us, pay us, pass us. But do not quite forget.

Youth is always too serious, and just now it is too serious about frivolity.

The central idea of poetry is the idea of guessing right, like a child.

And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine, "I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine."