Excellence does not require perfection.

The black and merciless things that are behind the great possessions.

It is indeed immensely picturesque. I can fancy sitting all a summer's day watching its shadows shorten and lengthen again, and drawing a delicious contrast between the world's duration and the feeble span of individual experience. There is something in Stonehenge almost reassuring; and if you are disposed to feel that life is rather a superficial matter, and that we soon get to the bottom of things, the immemorial gray pillars may serve to remind you of the enormous background of time.

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.

I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.

I recall my fleeting instants in Savannah as the taste of a cup charged to the brim.