Time is the substance of which we are made

Life itself is a quotation.

To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.

When I write, I do it urged by an intimate necessity. I don't have in mind an exclusive public, or a public of multitudes, I don't think in either thing. I think about expressing what I want to say. I try to do it in the simplest way possible.

It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.

There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer to the infinite.

To bless thine enemy is a good way to satisfy thy vanity.