I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.

At first I threw my weight upon my heels, as one does naturally in a boot, and was a good deal bruised, but after a few hours I learned the natural walk of man, and could follow my guide in any portion of the island.

The drama, like the symphony, does not teach or prove anything.

A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, for he will be going out on a day when he shouldn't.

A translation is no translation unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.

It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms.

Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as these men are bilingual they have a fair notion of what it means to speak and think in many different idioms.