To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it...to think intently and fruitfully, to woo combinations and inspirations into being by a depth and continuity of attention and meditation-this is the only thing.

Sorrow comes in great waves...but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us. And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.

The girl had a certain nobleness of imagination, which rendered her a good many services and played her a great many tricks.

Oxford lends sweetness to labour and dignity to leisure.

Novelist-Citizen of Two Countries Interpreter of his Generation on both Sides of the Sea.

To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.

He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.