Nothing is more beautifully and acceptably self-assertive than good singing.

We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

We are all the judges and the judged, victims of the casual malice and fantasy of others, and ready sources of fantasy and malice in our turn. And if we are sometimes accused of sins of which we are innocent, are there not also other sins of which we are guilty and of which the world knows nothing?

What makes you imagine ... that anything of importance can be taught in a school?

Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.

My heart was beating like an army on the march.