At the present day the crude theory of the sexual impulse held on one side, and the ignorant rejection of theory altogether on the other side, are beginning to be seen as both alike unjustified.

Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?

It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote, and the reason is that he is never really doing anything else.

All progress in literary style lies in the heroic resolve to cast aside accretions and exuberances, all the conventions of a past age that were once beautiful because alive and are now false because dead.

The immense value of becoming acquainted with a foreign language is that we are thereby led into a new world of tradition and thought and feeling.

What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.

Every artist writes his own autobiography.