If I live for another ten years I shall probably have written all that I want to write.

It is right and natural that generous minds while in the twenties should think the books which try to reform the world's wrong the greatest of all.

I believe absolutely in love being the central motive force of the universe.

The modern form of things had begun to appeal to me, also (as material for satire) politics, and the lives of the great and little, high up in the social scale.

For the last half of my life I have had the doubtful benefit of a brother whose literary reputation is much greater than my own.

Father eternal, ruler of creation, Spirit of life, which moved ere form was made Through the thick darkness covering every nation Light to man's blindness, O be Thou our aid.

I still think that if the human race, or even one nation, could only get right about its God the rest would follow.