But-! I say! The common conventions of humanity-' 'Are all very well for common people.

A world revolution to a higher social order, a world order, or utter downfall lies before us all.

I had just taken to reading. I had just discovered the art of leaving my body to sit impassive in a crumpled up attitude in a chair or sofa, while I wandered over the hills and far away in novel company and new scenes... My world began to expand very rapidly,... the reading habit had got me securely.

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven.

Books-bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls of men.

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.