We all live in the past, because there is nothing else to live in. To live in the present is like proposing to sit on a pin. It is too minute, it is too slight a support, it is too uncomfortable a posture, and it is of necessity followed immediately by totally different experiences, analogous to those of jumping up with a yell.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

It is the chief value of legend to mix up the centuries while preserving the sentiment.

Silence is the unbearable repartee.

The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not say.

There are many ways to fall down, but there's only one way to stand up straight.

Every heresy has been an effort to narrow the Church.