It exhibits the effort of an essentially prosaic mind to lift itself, by a prolonged muscular strain, into poetry.

Of course you're always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you'll condemn them all!

To believe in a child is to believe in the future. Through their aspirations they will save the world. With their combined knowledge the turbulent seas of hate and injustice will be calmed.

We work in the dark -- we do what we can -- we give what we have.

She envied Ralph his dying, for if one were thinking of rest that was the most perfect of all. To cease utterly, to give it all up and not know anything more — this idea was as sweet as the vision of a cool bath in a marble tank, in a darkened chamber, in a hot land.

Her memory's your love. You want no other.

There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition.